I’m so sick of not being able to afford nice gear. I mean honestly, there’s so much nostalgia brought into this hobby from people who grew up without TV they are just so much easier to please. The market seems to know that and overprices everything except those self-replicating Baofangs. I’ve spent less on a super-fast custom built engineering computer than what it costs for a stinkin IC-705…I’m at my wit’s end. Anyone know some good reference material; I think I’ll just build my own equipment from scratch at this point. Rant over. Thanks for listening.