bumblefish
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One has just sold on ebay for 155.00 pounds, is that a reasonable price?
Lowe HF-150
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boatbuilder
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Sounds about right, good reciever, at that price much better than the NASA .
wotayottie
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you should be able to get a ham transceiver for not a lot more
DavidJ
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Great bit of kit and still supported by old company. I bought mine on eBay for about that a couple of years back and it was perceived at the time to have been a very good deal for me. Mine incidently was an unmarinised version which has not suffered from a couple of years on the boat
AndrewB
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Bought mine new for £450 15 years ago. Seemed a lot at the time but there's not much other kit aboard that works as well as it did 15 years ago.
jerryat
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Bought mine new for £450 15 years ago. Seemed a lot at the time but there's not much other kit aboard that works as well as it did 15 years ago.
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Snap! .. or nearly so! Bought ours about 12 years ago for similar money and wouldn't part with it for anything. Ours is the 'marine' version, is superbly built and totally reliable. Ok, we now have an HF transceiver as well, but the Lowe stay on board as a back up when cruising.
I reckon £150 has given someone a very good buy!
Bought mine new for £450 15 years ago. Seemed a lot at the time but there's not much other kit aboard that works as well as it did 15 years ago.
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Snap! .. or nearly so! Bought ours about 12 years ago for similar money and wouldn't part with it for anything. Ours is the 'marine' version, is superbly built and totally reliable. Ok, we now have an HF transceiver as well, but the Lowe stay on board as a back up when cruising.
I reckon £150 has given someone a very good buy!
trouville
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I also bought the first lowe 125 which dident like life aboard and cost far to much i think it was £420 with postage to France.
I also bought a kenwood 140s at the same time.The kenwood was as good or better than the lowe, which after several breakdowns went overboard in 1996or7? Wy kenwood rusty and well used lasted with a few repairs until finally passing away in 2006.
At the moment im reduced to a yeasu 747 sx which ive modified but i wont recomed if you see one,must have the worst VFO ever fitted!
Today im looking for a new radio,also a new laptop which comes first,i would pay a bit more than £150 and look for either a kenwood/Icom amature transceiver or receiver.
I just went to ebay and found this ICOM QRP rig at about £150 far better than the lowe Im not very good at copying links it seems!!
Qrp rigs are always a lot less costly as evryone wants 100w or + the receivers the same as the excelent 706 and if you ever want to have more power you can build or buy an inexpensive amp
http://cgi.ebay.fr/ICOM-IC-703-HF-50MHZ-...1QQcmdZViewItem
I also bought a kenwood 140s at the same time.The kenwood was as good or better than the lowe, which after several breakdowns went overboard in 1996or7? Wy kenwood rusty and well used lasted with a few repairs until finally passing away in 2006.
At the moment im reduced to a yeasu 747 sx which ive modified but i wont recomed if you see one,must have the worst VFO ever fitted!
Today im looking for a new radio,also a new laptop which comes first,i would pay a bit more than £150 and look for either a kenwood/Icom amature transceiver or receiver.
I just went to ebay and found this ICOM QRP rig at about £150 far better than the lowe Im not very good at copying links it seems!!
Qrp rigs are always a lot less costly as evryone wants 100w or + the receivers the same as the excelent 706 and if you ever want to have more power you can build or buy an inexpensive amp
http://cgi.ebay.fr/ICOM-IC-703-HF-50MHZ-...1QQcmdZViewItem
gi7kmc
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If you have one of these don't do what I did. I normally used mine at home but I took it away on holiday and put normal AA batteries in it so I could leave the mains adaptor at home. When I got home I started using it on the mains again with out removing the batteries. When on mains power it recharges the batteries I left it plugged in for a week and the batteries leaked all over the circuit board. (There is a warning sticker on the back that I forgot to read!) It hasn't worked since but it did use it as an excuse to but a Icom 718 instead
Jonathan
Jonathan
bumblefish
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201 euro and a day to go, watch this space!
whipper_snapper
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I may know of a Yaesu FT-817 low power ham transceiver surplus to requirements and thus for sale (not mine).
This set has a pretty good multi-mode receiver although I don't know how it compares to the Lowe - anyone comment ? Its transmitter is so low power as to be all but useless, and the receiver will probably be more fiddly to use as most controls relate to the transmitter, but it may well do what you want.
Any interest ?
This set has a pretty good multi-mode receiver although I don't know how it compares to the Lowe - anyone comment ? Its transmitter is so low power as to be all but useless, and the receiver will probably be more fiddly to use as most controls relate to the transmitter, but it may well do what you want.
Any interest ?
