Re: [TenTec] Burghardt amateur center

["John Harden, D.M.D." <jhdmd@bellsouth.net>]

At age 15 in 1959 I ordered a National NC-57B receiver from World Radio 
Labs. The price was $50.00 and I paid Leo $5.00/month. As I recall it 
came by Railway Express. A few years back I e-mailed Leo and thanked him 
for making gear available to a teen ager with very limited funds. He 
e-mailed me back and thanked me! Those were the days.
Fortunately I was able to upgrade to Collins later, and after they left 
the ham market I moved to Ten-Tec. I now have Ten-Tec gear for 160 -10 
meters, and even 6 & 2 meters. The only rice box I have in my shack is a 
440 MHz transceiver as there are no American manufacturers of 70 CM gear 
that I am aware of. Ten-Tec supports virtually all of their gear and is 
great to deal with. I know that their service is not cheap but nothing 
worthwhile is.
It's refreshing to have Ten-Tec & Elecraft in the market place. I like 
gear you can work on. Rice boxes are never supported long and the 
service is terrible. I'd build my own before I'd buy one. And I have 
many times.
73,

John, W4NU
Atlanta, GA
K4JAG (1959 to 1998)

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).
>
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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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