to sell you a new tri-band mostly aluminum antenna should be wearing a mask and holding a gun. I just checked the current spot prices on aluminum per pound and this is what it looks like. 6063 is 60 cents a pound and 6061 is .50 cents a pound. So now lets compare a new Mosley TA-33-M that tips the scale at about 40 pounds and it will cost you right at $800.00 the only part that you could call machined would winding the coil forms. A handful of hardware and clamps and then aluminum tubing that slides together. Something is just wrong with this picture. As long as they have been making TA-33's I would thing they have recouped their research and development costs