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"Twenty-five communities now have radios and 12 more are scheduled to be put up by Invisible Children at a cost of about $18,000 each."

Someone is obviously making a comfortable profit on all this. Even the top end stuff like a Micom Pathfinder or RDP should cost much less.

Take into account the radio, solar kit, batteries, incidentals along with transportation. There's also some places where solar isn't as viable as another form of power generation, like human power.

Transpo is a huge cost factor, especially on the Dark Continent.

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President-in-Exile, Seattle Area Radio Communications And Scanner Traffic Intercept Crew (SARCASTIC)
Don't feel bad if you can't use your STD100/200; there are still people using Digital Frequency Search!
Bunnery definition for the under-fives

I kind of have to agree with Rich -- that does seem rather high -- despite the "other" costs involved. Heck, you could get Icom to donate IC-7200s (and modify them for open Tx) and a couple of Buddiesticks for next to peanuts.

Back in the days of the Vietnam "conflict" the FCC sent all the seized illegal CB stuff over there :mrgreen:

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That is how the people at DARPA think. they take things and use them in unconventional ways, to see what happens.

Probably some of that is the CIA's service fee for delivering it :P

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My first inclination was that it was a Motorola product at that high price...nothing like pillaging foreign countries. :mrgreen:

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A necropost later...

I just ended up dropping a tad over $26,000 on TRBO radios and miscellaneous stuff for an ongoing project in that same region. The stuff that's going would've run me just under $200 for shipping from origin to my place in Pierce County. To get it SAFELY delivered there, it ran nearly $7,000...underscoring what I said about transportation costs.

I don't even want to think about what cash "import fees and customs duties" are going to be paid (off) to local officials by my boots on the ground.

#lovetheJunta

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President-in-Exile, Seattle Area Radio Communications And Scanner Traffic Intercept Crew (SARCASTIC)
Don't feel bad if you can't use your STD100/200; there are still people using Digital Frequency Search!
Bunnery definition for the under-fives