[TowerTalk] Sunneyvake HRO - SK

[Herbert Schoenbohm]

Living in Iowa City I didn't mind driving to Council Bluffs to see Leo 
Meyerson to buy my first commercial made transmitter a Globe Scout with 
terms for my paper route money.  Gone are these days.


Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ (W0VXO back then)


On 3/24/2017 1:18 PM, bill steffey wrote:
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>> The Chicago stores were put under partly because hams would use them
>> as show-rooms to look at rigs, then PHONE IN AN ORDER TO AES IN
>> MILWAUKEE to avoid Illinois SALES TAX.
>> Of course IL SKY HIGH Sales Tax to blame also!!
>> Rob
>> K5UJ
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> that was , as far as I see, A BIG SCAM.
> The owner of AES also owned the ONLY ham store in chicago..
> ERICKSON COMMUNICATIONS...  i say only...the only store that could get 
> the icom, yaesu and kenwood franchise.....( what mattered)
>
> cute, as it kept any competitors out (certainly those Japanese MFgrs 
> listened to their BIG account in Milwaukee who undoubtedly disliked 
> the idea of having competition in Chicago) ..
> yes    check it out at Erickson  and  have it shipped tax free from 
> Milwaukee...
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> I always looked forward to trips to LA so I could wander down to HRO 
> Anaheim
> where many radios hooked up and coffee also....
> AES & Erickson operated like a parts house with the "clerks" sitting 
> on stools BEHIND THE COUNTER...  might as well have had their arms 
> crossed as well...
> such a cozy feeling ,,,,NOT    ham radio deserved better...
> now due to internet no one will open a ham store in Chicago, unless 
> they tax internet/mail order sales. Glad HRO took over the AES store.
>
> bill     who 'got outta town'  5 years ago
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