Hello
In case anyone is interested, it's currently Amazon Prime Day (or Days) in Australia (October 8-13) and, I believe, in the US. This is when there are price reductions and "special buys" for Amazon Prime customers. (Amazon Prime is a low-cost monthly subscription service giving next-day (or even same-day!) delivery on many items, including some amateur radio items.
Here's an overview: https://www.techradar.com/au/amazon-prime-day/new-prime-day-deals#:~:text=A%20little%20over%20two%20months,AEDT%20on%20Sunday%2C%20October%2013. And here is an interesting video from Hayden VK7KK describing ham gear for sale in the Prime Day promotion. https://youtu.be/rPwpARHsYG8
The video concentrates on Amazon US, but you can buy from them even if they say they only ship to US addresses by using a forwarding service such as www.shipito.com Of course, it's good to support local ham stores, but Amazon sells a lot of stuff that isn't available locally. May be worth a look. https://www.amazon.com.au/ Would be interested to hear if anyone has got a good bargain from this. 73 Paul
PS Hayden's YouTube channel (Ham Radio DX) has some other interesting content, too. https://www.youtube.com/@HamRadioDX
Correction: Hayden's callsign is VK7HH https://www.qrz.com/db/VK7HH