BASIC HAM RADIO: If you have this amateur radio handheld, you can sell it for more than you paid for it

HT with unique features is giving reselling owners hundreds of extra dollars in cash

We’re entering hamfest season in much of the USA (at least the colder climes), which means there will be hams out ready to clear out unwanted gear — trying to get what they can get for it in a parking lot or church basement and not have to take it back home.

Hamfests are one place to unload your unwanted ham radio gear, making it easy to sell without advertising or shipping it. Take the cash and be done with the transaction. | Photo courtesy of Mid-Atlantic Amateur Radio Club

We all have to part with gear at one time or another. Nowhere does it say that the person with the most ham gear wins. You have to thin out the ranks — well, unless, of course, you’re a hoarder.

We know of one ham handheld radio that is a little bit of a rarity and we can almost guarantee that if you own one that you can sell it for more than you paid for it new — or even used, if you bought it more than a year or two ago.

What’s this handheld that’s worth more used than new? How can that happen? Well, let us tell you how it happened and why hams are clamoring to purchase this HT for more than it sold for in the past. Yep, we said “in the past,” because this handheld is out of production. Hmmmm … curious yet?

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