Well, I would have had to travel to get the rigs - plus they were BIG heavy out of date rigs that I would have had to prevail on a friend to program (commercial rigs - GE Rangrs for those in the know) - plus 110watts .

Forgot to add - heavy enough that the shipping would cost more than what you could buy a smaller, newer rig on eBay for. I called around to local hams - got rid of 2 or 3 that way. There was a point a few years back (before I knew the guy) - he threw out 200 of them in ONE day. And yeah, he's a ham. Around here - you want to run commecial rigs as a ham, he's a GOOD man to know