[SEDXC] Radio Shack

[Tad Williamson]

Pete, K4BKD, told me he was looking for something(of course he couldn't find it) in a Radio Shack a while ago when the radio in the store started playing, "You Can't Always Get What You Want" by the Rolling Stones.  He thought that was probably the most appropriate song he had ever heard played in a Radio Shack--I have to agree!
Tad, WF4W


 

"What a long, strange trip it's been"
 
The Grateful Dead
 
Truckin'

--- On Thu, 8/6/09, Gary McConville <wb4sq at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Gary McConville <wb4sq at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [SEDXC] Radio Shack
To: sedxc at contesting.com, "David Thompson" <thompson at mindspring.com>
Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009, 11:00 AM



My last trip into RadShack, and I do mean it was my last visit ever again, I went in looking for a couple of 8" full range speakers to replaced damaged ones.  Now the only thing they sell is you can call it a speaker, is a micro speaker in an enclosure that you wouldn't even put in your dog house.  How can they stay in business???

--- On Wed, 8/5/09, David Thompson <thompson at mindspring.com> wrote:

> From: David Thompson <thompson at mindspring.com>
> Subject: [SEDXC] Radio Shack
> To: sedxc at contesting.com
> Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 6:14 PM
> Years ago Radio Shack was a "real"
> amateur gear and electronics parts place. 
> I have a 1962 catalog that looks like an Allied radio one
> with all the gear 
> and parts.  Hams have been the CEO in the past say 20
> years and that is why 
> the started radioshack.com (some remember the store on
> Buford Highway that 
> took over part of the original Home Depot).
> 
> I bought a lot of stuff there and when they closed they
> sold MFJ and 
> Ameritron for 1/2 off.
> 
> Now the parts are mostly in a cabinet in the back of the
> store.  You just 
> have to go look for yourself.  I have the last catalog
> they printed (2002) 
> and have bought stuff to repair amps.  They have
> dropped ham gear and even 
> kits and the sales people only know cell phones.  They
> don't want to be 
> bothered with parts or shielded wire questions.
> 
> Dave K4JRB 
> 
> 
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