Most people are talking about Baofengs and similar Chinese-brand radios for inexpensive radios, which are mostly VHF/UHF range. There's also HF rigs that are inexpensive, like the uBitX (http://www.hfsignals.com/index.php/ubitx/), which you buy as an easy-to-assemble kit. It can do 10W on HF, and it's only 109$.