and i just bought the ft450d to add to my collection. brand new. i only buy new when it comes to ham radios. to many screwdriver techs out there
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and i just bought the ft450d to add to my collection. brand new. i only buy new when it comes to ham radios. to many screwdriver techs out there
Now you have more than plenty to run any HF radio you want to and also run other things too and still have some headroom for sure!! I wouldn't hesitate ordering another S400-12 or even the S700-12. They are pretty darn good power supplies for the money! And they don't produce any hash that I have been able to find on other freqs. Enjoy it. Good day.
I put up the challenge before about information on a 17 CFM 12 volt fan than is quieter and I got no response. What other true 50 amp power supplies out there have a quite fans? My fan noise is all air flow. Its not motor or bearing noise. PM me so I can buy one and test it. I would love to make it run cool and quite!
I'm going to guess that ham radio is much less expensive than racing!
Actually ham radio has a wide dynamic range in terms of money spent. A lot of people are quite frugal with it and others seem to spend every free dollar on ham gear. Most of us are somewhere in between.
After about 35 years in the hobby I have a couple of big ticket items in the shack. Most things are modest or were bought/traded for used. Over time it's easy to accumulate a large portfolio of gear but amortized over the years, I haven't spent all that much. My largest single outlay of cash was for the K3 and that was in 2010. Since then I've added a bit here and there.
No more so than any other hobby. If you are happy with used gear you can have a full station for less than $1000. What's a new bass boat cost?
You can spend as much as you want in ham radio but you can also spend VERY little. It depends what you as an individual want to do but again, like any hobby if you want to all out it will cost LOTS.
Not a ham here but I've noticed the same thing with CB gear. I consider myself a casual CBer but I have a quite substantial collection/accumulation of gear, most of it was just from the occasional deal that I stumbled on over the years.
With patience a lot of stuff can be picked up pretty cheap, if you have to have it right now then it's probably gonna cost you.
yes sir i bought all my gear new. should have shopped around for a good used rig. its hard to buy used without knowing if its been modded to death
im weary buying used. you never know what your getting
im weary buying used. you never know what your getting