"Noon-Air" wrote ...
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.

Its hard to get good help these days.
Maybe they thing there is more of a future in the
leather business.