You can do what you want to do and spend as little or as much as you're willing to pay on shiny, black boxes, whatever floats your boat. Ultimately you get out what you put in and take whatever satisfaction from what you've achieved whether it's bashing the contacts flat on your key to break a pile-up with one watt or scaling Croagh Padraig with a bergen full of batteries and radio gear just to say you're up there
