Yes, just like all Hoosiers do the same in Indiana!

"Marco S Hyman" wrote in message
...
"Bill Turner" writes:

I just bought an IC-756PRO III at GigaParts. Best price of anyone, no
sales tax (I'm in CA) and free shipping. Can't beat that.

Technically, defefred sales tax. You are supposed to declare such
things on your state tax return where it is called a use tax. I'm
sure all Californians do just that :-)

// marc

John, N9JG wrote:
Well, at least Radio Shack doesn't sell the "Trash 80" anymore.

Nope Just trash

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

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)

wrote in message
. ..
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

"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.

Guess I'm aging myself. This was back in 1983-1986. LOL

--
Chaplain (1LT) Lonnie J. Potter
Aide-de-Camp
Kentucky Brigade, Third Division
United States Corps of Chaplains
"Richard Crowley" wrote in message
...
"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.

plonnie wrote ...
Guess I'm aging myself. This was back in 1983-1986. LOL

Yes, that was back when they had BOTH...
1) Good help (folk who knew a resistor from their elbow)
2) Actual corporate cognizance of what the electronics
business is. In the last few years, it seems to me that
the management in Texas doesn't know (or care) whether
they are in the electronics business, or selling fried
chicken or furniture.

Interesting to see the rise and fall in my lifetime. As a
teenager in high school, I remember Radio Shack taking
over several of the local electronics stores in town (Orange
County, CA). To be sure, the ~schlock 5 resistors in a
plastic bag on a peg type places, not the really serious
electronics suppliers. RS never really had a "Golden
Era" IMHO, but they made it to Bronze there for a while.

On 02/20/06 02:56 am Richard Crowley wrote:

Guess I'm aging myself. This was back in 1983-1986. LOL

Yes, that was back when they had BOTH...
1) Good help (folk who knew a resistor from their elbow)
2) Actual corporate cognizance of what the electronics
business is. In the last few years, it seems to me that the management
in Texas doesn't know (or care) whether
they are in the electronics business, or selling fried
chicken or furniture.

US companies (*perhaps* companies in other countries too, but probably
to a lesser extent) don't care whether their CEOs know anything about
their particular products or services. Someone can go from a fast-food
co. to a computer co., to an automobile manufacturer, to a health-care
corporation, all the while knowing very little about the specifics of
the industry and getting a salary and benefits many times (hundreds of
times?) more than the CEO of a European company who actually has a
degree in electrical engineering or whatever is relevant to the
company's products.

"Perce"
(aka Alan NV8A)

ORIGINAL MESSAGE:

wrote:

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.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Your maintenance chief did not have a spare tube and resistor on hand
for a "vital communications link"? Had I been his superior, he would
have gotten something far different than a Commendation Medal!

Mr Bill

Ref Radio Shack. does anybody on here remember the 1st Radio shack??
The one called "Boston Radio Shack". It was the only one in the
country and it was the original one. I was told the new Radio shack
bought out the rights to the title. The old Boston Radio Shack was
truly a hams delight back in the late 30's.
They had Catalogs available for a postage stamp too something
present day Radio Shacks no longer offer.
Joe

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