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Originally Posted by similost
Could you imagine trying to find someone today with the skills to put one of these kits together? Very few and far between compared to what the numbers would have been back in 64...
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You are right, people are far less do-it-yourself inclined in general these days it seems. The USA is probably worse than other countries; when I have visited ham radio stores in Japan and England, they have far more individual pieces for antenna construction than similar American stores.
I would love to build a Heathkit TV now. All of the kits I built in the late 70's and early 80's went together without a problem. Even a Ramsey ham radio transceiver was a thrill in the mid-90's, hearing good signals from what had been a pile of parts and a board.