{"id":27,"date":"2025-01-26T15:47:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T15:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2025-01-26T15:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T15:50:27","slug":"the-spending-spree-is-over-and-the-piper-must-be-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/the-spending-spree-is-over-and-the-piper-must-be-paid\/","title":{"rendered":"The spending spree is over and the piper must be paid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"30\" src=\"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/xpr-4380-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30\" srcset=\"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/xpr-4380-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/xpr-4380-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/xpr-4380-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, the credit card company that is. As many hams can attest, one can spend just a couple hundred dollars on radio gear or one can spend thousands. The sky is the limit. I guess that&#8217;s true with any hobby. This past month, I added a Motorola XPR 4380 900 MHz radio along with an 8 ft. colinear antenna for it. The antenna looked so good I decided to upgrade my trusty old J-pole for a dual-band Comet GP-6 that&#8217;s still on its way in the mail. So all in all, about $550 spent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now I&#8217;ve promised myself to be a good boy financially so I&#8217;ve decided to offload some radios I no longer use. I sold a slightly-damaged Kenwood HT this morning for $100 and I&#8217;ve got an ad out there to sell a scanner for hopefully $200. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then I can buy that XPR 4350 70 cm radio for $156! It&#8217;s tempting but no, not today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the credit card company that is. As many hams can attest, one can spend just a couple hundred dollars on radio gear or one can spend thousands. The sky is the limit. I guess that&#8217;s true with any hobby. This past month, I added a Motorola XPR 4380 900 MHz radio along with an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}