my first receiver was the Allied copy of the S-38 delivered by Railway
Express in the summer of 1961.
jack
ak7o
On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 12:26 +0000, kd3jf.paulgates@gmail.com wrote:
> Back in the mid 60s I ordered a used Drake TR4 from Allied radio in Chicago
> and came by Railway Express. Those were the days.
>
> Paul KD3JF
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Wes Attaway \(N5WA\)" <wesattaway@bellsouth.net>
>
> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:28:33
> To: <geraldj@weather.net>; 'Discussion of Ten-Tec
> Equipment'<tentec@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Burghardt amateur center
>
>
> I remember ordering a Viking II from them back in about 1957. That was
> before UPS..... they shipped it via Railway Express (another bygone
> company).
>
> ------------------ Wes Attaway (N5WA) ------------------
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of Dr. Gerald N. Johnson
> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 10:12 AM
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Burghardt amateur center
>
> On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 00:11 -0400, Richards wrote:
> > Burghardt has closed its store, and does not sell retail any more. The
> > DO continue to repair radios. Same web pages get you to them.
> >
> > Too bad... I bought everything in the shack that does not say TenTec on
> it.
> >
> > =========== K8JHR ================
> >
> I drove by the store two weeks ago this evening. Looked bare, no
> antennas showing, grass growing through the cracks in the parking lot. I
> didn't bother checking on Saturday morning to see if there was activity.
> The reports I've seen were that they do still sell what is in stock,
> mostly parts the last I looked and I didn't find anything that I needed
> when I downloaded their new or used lists.
>
> I guess they went out of retail business because we didn't buy enough.
> I've seen many a small ham store go under in my 54 years of being a ham,
> often from lack of enough business to pay the utilities and to keep up
> the fancy test equipment the radio makers demanded to allow proper
> servicing. Few of the fancy signal (or plain) signal generators will
> accept 100 watts from a transceiver while giving out a signal to test
> the receiver. Repairs from those events are expensive. Then there's
> quantity from the factory. It seems the big retailers can often sell for
> less than the little retailer can buy for and that's a sure way to end
> of business when the internet and long distance telephone allows
> competitive shopping.
>
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ
>
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