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Made it down to Marshfield today.
If anyone wants Antenna's. They have them
11 Meters - Plenty :lol:
They also have the 800 BNC as well as the BNC Straight Telescope

Plenty of Parts/Cables, and the elusive FM Traps



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I was going through a box of stored items in my garage that were packed in newspaper from May 25, 1991. Among the crumpled paper, was a Memorial Day ad for RadioShack that I thought I'd share:
 

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Some good stuff in that ad.

536/436/ws1095/996p2/996xt/325p2/396xt/psr800/396t/HP-1/HP-2 & others

Interestingly, if you adjust the original non-sale prices for inflation, today's pricing would be:
- Tandy 1000 Computer = $3077.31
- Desktop Scanner - $235.38
- Speed-dialing cordless phone - $217.27
- Compact CB - $126.70
Any of these products would be, in some cases, far cheaper today. Regardless, the ad is a great reminder of how good RadioShack sale discounts used to be. (Yes, I know. Probably because the original prices were as high as they were!)
 

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It looks like almost everything there, except the earphones, is a collector's item now.
 

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When it costs Motorola $214 to produce an XTL5000 100w mobile, this puts the manufacturing cost of these scanners in the $20 range these days. Scanner prices should be much cheaper now.
 

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They might be cheaper if the transmitting technology wasn't so varied. That Motorola doesn't have to pick up all the different frequencies or broadcast technologies.
 

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When it costs Motorola $214 to produce an XTL5000 100w mobile, this puts the manufacturing cost of these scanners in the $20 range these days. Scanner prices should be much cheaper now.
Motorola doesn't have to pay royalties on the different types of receiving protocols.

536/436/ws1095/996p2/996xt/325p2/396xt/psr800/396t/HP-1/HP-2 & others
 

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Only on the original dvsi codec since all the rest of trbo is theirs. As is the little vselp still in use. Nxdn they don't use. EDACS they don't use. Etc and so on. Whereas the top of the line scanners do almost everything.

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Those old catalogs are some way cool stuff. Signs of better days. I found IIRC a 1977 RS catalog in some stuff left in the attic of this place a couple of years ago...I wish I could recall what I did with it. I'm sure I didn't throw it away. Was actually in very good condition, pages only slightly brittle & faded. It was pretty enlightening, paging through it. RS when it was still THE radio/electronics hobbyist's and stereo/hi-fi junkie's go-to store.;)

I sure wish I'd saved all the ones I collected as a kid...
 

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Me too. But back then nobody would ever think the Catalogs would be a collectors item for even a small group of people. That site it awesome by the way. Some of the covers bring back memories.


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