[mikethedruid]

I know what you mean. I have been buying radios from eBay for years, and watched the prices go up and up. I am not looking for radios which somebody has already worked on. My hobby is the restoration of them. Now it is very hard to find a decent, unmolested radio at anything NEAR a reasonable price. Once in a great while you DO find such a thing, and manage to not be outbid, but those times are getting fewer and fewer. I still look though. I remember when I started collecting antique radios as a kid how I could get them for free because people were happy to get rid of "old junk", or buy them for $5 or $10 at the Salvation Army, depending on the condition.