Last spring I went hat in hand to my wife with the 3-year old K3 brochure. I did make an offer that she could not refuse (pay off the loan on her Toyota Sienna). We plundered my 401K account for $12K; I got $4K and she got $8K. Of course the interest on her car loan was way more than what the 401K was earning. Also, we had been laid off six months before so lessening the monthly cash-flow by $600 didn't hurt. It's amazing how laid-off at 66 turns into retired!
I waited at least three years before buying, but that was because I did not figure that we could afford it. My wife really surprised me. She did say that Santa was going on vacation for ten years! Ho! Ho! 73, Ed - KL7UW ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 09:27:46 -0800 (PST) From: Wes Stewart <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Interesting Conversation about FT-5000 vs K3 To: Guy Olinger K2AV <[email protected]> Cc: Elecraft Reflector <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 We are in the same boat. I've been working on and off on a LPD antenna to replace my HB 20-meter monobander. After chasing ZL8X around the bands using just a 40/80 meter inverted vee (22 band/modes worked) I was saying to my wife that maybe I should just breakdown and buy something. She said, "How much?" I said, "About $1500 or so." She said, "Buy it, we have the money." Of course we have the money because I've been frugal. Also she thinks I'll get the bathroom remodeled faster if I'm not working on antennas. :-) Whenever I've thought that there was something that I absolutely, positively couldn't live without, I have just waited a month to see how I felt then. Usually, I could live without it, if not, I bought it. Wes N7WS 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45 ====================================== BP40IQ 500 KHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com EME: 144-800*w, 432-100w, 1296-testing*, 3400-winter? DUBUS Magazine USA Rep [email protected] ====================================== *temp not in service ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
