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Quantity Over Quality (Was: Unwritten policy and the intent of the average amateur ...)
On 29 Jan 2007 16:44:02 -0800, "
wrote: On Jan 29, 3:32?pm, Dave Heil wrote: KH6HZ wrote: "Bob Brock" writes: In response to "Dee Flint" : Right. adio Shack pimps the hot products for the moment. The way I see it, them not even carrying license manuals speaks volumes about demand for them. ow, when you walk into a Radio Shack and see loads of HF antennas, HF rigs, and a shelf of study guides; then you can say that Ham radio is back in demand. Radio Shack cannot compete with big discount houses like HRO.I disagree, Mike. adio Shack had its roots in selling amateur equipment when it was a Boston firm decades back. hen Tandy bought it, it in good shape. t swallowedAlliedElectronics back around 1970 and either closed or turned into Radio Shack stores, all of theAllied retail outlets. t owns and operatesAlliedElectronics as an industrial distributor. ight now the company is in search of itself. Really? Wow, Allied is LYING to us! I just pulled down the 2007 Allied catalog from the shelf, the one that arrived at the end of last year. 2,192 pages, 8 1/2 x 11 format. It's about 2 13/16 inch thick. I looked at the corporate address on the back page: Allied An Electrocomponents Company 7410 Pebble Drive Fort Worth TX 76116 I've ordered from them via Internet. As a result I'm on their "announcements" e-mail list. I remember Allied from its beginning days in Chicago, IL. Back in 1956 they had a large store there selling 1956-era electronic parts. Can't see a thing about "Tandy" in that catalog. I was unaware that they were once a "ham radio supplier." All the time I thought they supplied parts to the electronics industry. Thanks for clearing that up. It's always a treat to hop in here and get the "real low-down" from the ... Sometimes it's easier to just do a quick Google search and you find things like this... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_Radio Allied Radio would change ownership in 1970 when Radio Shack's parent company (Tandy Corporation) bought both Allied Radio & Allied Electronics. The retail division was merged with Tandy's retail unit to become Allied Radio Shack, with the main office of both divisions moving to Fort Worth, Texas. But as a result of the merger, many major shopping centers would have two Allied Radio Shack stores competing for the same dollars. As a result, the former Allied Radio storefronts would fade away, with the former Radio Shack stores taking on both product lines (and the expense of the extra inventory.) This was in some ways a more difficult task as the original Radio Shack storefronts were typically smaller than the Allied Radio stores. By 1973 due directly to federal court action, Tandy was ordered to divest itself of Allied Radio, but by that time with the purging of duplicate stock and closing of low volume stores, there was very little left to sell off, and the Tandy stores would once again bear the Radio Shack name. Since Tandy did not have a commercial-industrial supply division, Allied Electronics would continue as a "Division of Tandy Corporation" that served the manufacturing sector until the mid-1980s when it began to change owners. Oh, and that 2007 Allied catalog sits next to the Mouser 2006 catalog #628...almost as big in size and pages. Those two sit next to the Jameco February 2007 catalog, not as big but sure looks like it is going to be a very big distributor some day. It's nice to see all those distributors have "found themselves." Regardez, LA |