[SEDXC] Radio Shack

[Gary McConville]

But you can't even get what you need... in Rad Shack.  Online is the answer.

--- On Thu, 8/6/09, Tad Williamson <ironbutttad at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Tad Williamson <ironbutttad at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [SEDXC] Radio Shack
> To: sedxc at contesting.com
> Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009, 12:17 PM
> 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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