> may be in the thousands if we take the hourly rate of a tech worker. Flawed comparison, I know, but you get the point.
I get what you're trying to say, but if "tech worker hourly rate" is your metric and "putz around with ham radio" is your goal, honestly, the answer is go buy an off-the-shelf radio for 1-3 TechWorkerHourlyBuckaroos [1]
If the goal however is "tinker with electronics", the relevant metrics are precisely "counting up the mistakes" and "tallying up the opportunity cost wasted at the workbench".
"Why buy this for x when I can build it for x^n" is the motto of any sufficiently-respectful building-shit hobby in the era of global drop-shipping.
[1]: +/- the "ham spectrum requires a test and a license before you can touch it" legaleese
I get what you're trying to say, but if "tech worker hourly rate" is your metric and "putz around with ham radio" is your goal, honestly, the answer is go buy an off-the-shelf radio for 1-3 TechWorkerHourlyBuckaroos [1]
If the goal however is "tinker with electronics", the relevant metrics are precisely "counting up the mistakes" and "tallying up the opportunity cost wasted at the workbench".
"Why buy this for x when I can build it for x^n" is the motto of any sufficiently-respectful building-shit hobby in the era of global drop-shipping.
[1]: +/- the "ham spectrum requires a test and a license before you can touch it" legaleese