With all due respect Sir, I happy your boss got a gold plated "attaboy", but
I can't believe that your incident has happened in the last 5 years. If you
walk into a RS store in these parts(south Mississippi) and ask for a tube,
they will look at you like you are nuts.... then ask "A tube of what??".
Their employees are clueless if its not in the latest sale flier or the
catalog. Just in the last couple of weeks, I was looking for simple, basic
porcelin or glass "dog bone" insulators to build a counterpoise for a
verticle HF antenna. I walked in there with a picture of a couple of
different styles of insulators and they were totally baffled.... never heard
of them before, and never seen such. I got the same response from 4
(count'em FOUR) RS stores.

-n6ojn

USCG MK1 (ret)

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Interesting to hear all these comments about a company the US government
has provided valuable assistance from. While stationed overseas in
Belgium, I worked as a radio operator. One of the radio's we used was a
Collins KWM2-A transciever and it blew a tube and resistor on a vital
communications link. Within 15 minutes, a new one was acquired at a local
Tandy store and up and running. Our maintenance chief owes his Air Force
Commendation Medal and a great deal of thanks to them.

--
Chaplain (1LT) Lonnie J. Potter
Aide-de-Camp
Kentucky Brigade, Third Division
United States Corps of Chaplains