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- From: richardm@runx.oz.au (Richard Murnane)
- Newsgroups: aus.radio
- Subject: Re: antennae for scanning on 2m/70cm/23cm
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.215658.10247@runx.oz.au>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 21:56:58 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.022744.7782@fawlty.towers.oz.au> <1763@eram.esi.COM.AU> <1992Nov19.034149.10446@fawlty.towers.oz.au>
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- In article <1992Nov19.034149.10446@fawlty.towers.oz.au> steve@fawlty.towers.oz.au (Steve Blanche) writes:
- > I hate it when people say they cant afford it, how much is it, its
- >equivalent to a couple cases of beer and some people drink that in a
- >single week, so give up beer for a week !
- >Same applies to just joining the WIA, its I think about $60 this year,
- >bloody chicken feed, I know pensioners who throw twice as much into poker
- >machines EACH WEEK !!
- >Those old fossils have to come up with better excuses than that.
- >
- >de steve
- Yes, I think the cost is a red herring, though $60 in one hit can be made to
- sound like a lot, especially to those who are waiting anxiously on their
- next pay/pension cheque.
- I've been working on an introductory leaflet for the WIA, and I just
- tried to express the cost in a different way, and i came up with "less than
- 20 cents a day" - less than renting a TV, which you wouldn't need anyway
- if you were active...
- Still $60 is too much for those who think nothing about spending thousands
- on a rig. It's just a very weak attempt to justify a politically
- motivated decision or simple apathy.
-
- 73 de Richard VK2SKY
-
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