[SEDXC] Sad Deal

Sat Aug 18 22:14:08 EDT 2018

When I just Past 12 1/2 years old I got my novice license, KN4ROZ and when I turned 13, I asked all my family to give me cash to buy a new receiver to go with my Globe Scout transmitter. 
   My dad put me on a Trailways bus and I got off at the bus station on Lucky Street. Ack Radio was around the corner. 
   Tommy Ack sold me an RME 4350 receiver (remember the big curved face and 75:1 vernier tuning knob?). It was in a bigger box than I could carry, and Tommy put it on a hand-truck and wheeled it to the bus station for me. 
    When I went off to college I abandoned ham radio for several years. After law school we moved into an apartment in Roswell Road, just north of Wieuca. Chaz, W4GKF, lived nearby, and Morgan PAYNE from Rome, GA WAS MY NEXT-door neighbor. Ack Radio was no longer on Lucky Street  
    One morning I was driving to work downtown on Peachtree St.  The traffic at Brookwood Station was backed up due to a wreck. So I turned down Deering St. to cut thru to Northside. As I approached the Northside intersection, I look up and saw the Ack Radio sign. I slammed on the brakes and slid on the gravel. I almost crashed thru the front windows. 
   When I walked into the store, Tommy was standing behind the counter. He looked at me and said “Aren’t you the kid from Winder who bought an RME 4350 from me 10 years ago?”
    Tommy loaned me some used gear “to try out.” I went home that night and strung up a long wire antenna up 2 telephone poles with climbing spikes and worked a DX station on 20 CW. I was hooked. 
   I played poker with Chaz and Morgan Payne 
Twice a month, and soon all 3 of us had purchased used Collins S Lines from Tommy. 
   I will never forget how nice Tommy was to me and so many others. The store will be missed. 
                     Dale
                     K4ROZ

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> On Aug 18, 2018, at 4:50 PM, Chaz Cone <chaz at chazcone.com> wrote:
> 
> When I came to Georgia Tech in 1957 I brought with me my DX100 and SX-99.  Over the years I traded used ham gear with Tommy Ack many times.  In each case, he got the better of the deal.  Once I bought a Heathkit mobile rig from him (Cheyenne and Comanche) where I paid too much, traded them back to him for a Hallicrafters SX-101 and HT-37 and later traded those back for a Collins 75-S3 and 32-S1 — and paid too much.  Nevertheless, i loved that guy!
> 
> 
> Chaz W4GKF
> 
> 
> 
>> On Aug 18, 2018, at 4:25 PM, chasrussell73 at charter.net wrote:
>> 
>> When I was a young Ham in the Atlanta Teenag Radio Club Tommy allowed
>> me to buy a Globe King 400 (or it could have been a 500...years do
>> things to memory) on an installment plan. I had not been to ACK since
>> sometime in the late 60s.
>> Sad to see the old stores disappear. I remember South Eastern Radio
>> Supply in Hapeville. There was a store on Juniper St downtown Atlanta
>> I went to often, the name I cannot recall.
>> Whit, K4EEK
>> 
>>    -----------------------------------------From: "Hugh Valentine" 
>> To: "Ken Byers", D.M.D."
>> Cc: "Harry Saunders", "Dave Thompson", "James Kauten",
>> "sedxc at contesting.com", "Steve McElroy"
>> Sent: Friday August 17 2018 2:14:53PM
>> Subject: Re: [SEDXC] Sad Deal
>> 
>> I hate to say…or maybe better to say…I only visited ACKs
>> once…since I was in Macon and had no car.
>> That walk was a long one…..
>> A part of history gone…
>> 
>> Val
>> 
>> Sent from Mail [1] for Windows 10
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: Ken Byers 
>> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2018 7:16:39 AM
>> To: John Harden, D.M.D.
>> Cc: Steve McElroy; Hugh Valentine; sedxc at contesting.com; Dave
>> Thompson; James Kauten; Harry Saunders
>> Subject: Re: Sad Deal
>> 
>> Tommy was always jealous of my call since it is his initials
>> 
>> K4TEA
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> On Aug 16, 2018, at 18:28, John Harden, D.M.D.  wrote:
>> 
>> I have been doing business with Ack Radio since around 1970... It was
>> started by Everett Atkerson (W4ECI) in Birmingham in the 1940's. His
>> son Tommy (W4RRW) opened up a store on Lucky St. in Atlanta in the
>> late 1950's. The grandson (Steve) took over the business when Tommy
>> passed away in August of 1998. Steve was not a ham.
>> 
>> W4ECI was one of the QSL managers for Gus Browning, W4BPD, and and a
>> big DXer. He had a big Telrex 20 meter monobander on a tower on a
>> mountain in Birmingham, AL.
>> 
>> 73,
>> 
>> John, W4NU
>> 
>> K4JAG (1959 to 1998)
>> 
>> ACK Radio Supply Company of Georgia will be closing its doors
>> permanently on Friday, July 20th.
>> 
>> Until that time, all inventory is being offered at 50% off with $100
>> purchase. It's a great time for deals!
>> 
>> All of us at ACK, and all of the family who owned it since it was
>> founded, would like to express sincere appreciation for your patronage
>> over the past seven decades.
>> 
>> Unfortunately, being a brick and mortar electronic supplier, in the
>> world of on-line sales, where competition is fierce, and with
>> compeditors such as Amazon or eBay, this is no longer a profitable
>> business venture.
>> 
>> Again, we thank you for your loyalty and hope you will drop by for
>> some great discounts.
>> 
>> 50% Off! - On all purchases over $100.
>> 
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