RE: [drakelist] pricing and the TR-5

[Tom Taylor \(EHOME\)]

Sounds like it's time to get the Discovery Channel to sponser a diving expedition to recover those radios! (like they did with Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell) The documentary would be fantastic; at least to those of us on this list :-)   Tom N7TM From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Baker Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 4:40 PM To: James E. Lanier; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [drakelist] pricing and the TR-5 Jim,   the TR5 is a fine radio and works well and was to be the solid state replacement for the TR4 series.  I think the reason for the high value is its a rare item to find.   Drake only manufactured 517 units,  as compared to around 3000 or more TR7's.   Of those 517 TR5's built we believe a large number of them (estimated around 200 units) were lost as sea while being shipped to South America.       73,  Ron / WB4HFN     ----- Original Message ----- From: James E. Lanier To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 6:32 PM Subject: [drakelist] pricing and the TR-5 I checked out the link  http://www.wb4hfn.com/DrakePricing.htm and was please to see that my rig (TR-5) is apparently valuable. It seems to be as valuable as the tr-7 . To what do you attribute this?   Jim N4BPM www.chemroc.com