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Allied Radio turned into Radio Shack,didn't they.I have an old Allied
Radio catalog floating around here somewhere.Hey,sometimes I forget
which one of my webtv addies I happen to be useing (I have Six,count em
Six) at the moment.Hence my flowerinThWater thingy.
cuhulin

OH-MY-GAWSH An Unbuilt Star Roamer

I wish those folks who sell things (things I am interested in anyway) on
eBay would always include their email address.I once bought something
from a guy in Ohio who did include his email address on eBay.I emailed
him and asked him how much money he would accept for the item and I
snail mailed him a check for the item.
cuhulin
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if you are an ebay member, they have a service called "best offer".
look it up on ebay. just new this month. i didn't read the whole
news burp. i haven't had time as yet.
Drifter...

In article ,
"patgkz" wrote:

I will be mortgaging the house soon to bid on this one! .....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...7511429 33&rd
=1

Not that this is one of the "later" Japanese Star Roamers......jap power
transformer and jap electrolytic. I put one of these together in 1968 and
was very disappointed at the lower quality of the components as compared to
a "USA" Star Roamer. Soon afterward, we all know what happened to Allied
Radio.

I sold my Star Roamer along with my Span Master to buy a brand new Allied
A-2515 receiver....another mistake.

Makes more sense to sell it for parts.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

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Allied Radio turned into Radio Shack,didn't they.I have an old Allied
Radio catalog floating around here somewhere.Hey,sometimes I forget
which one of my webtv addies I happen to be useing (I have Six,count em
Six) at the moment.Hence my flowerinThWater thingy.
cuhulin

Allied Radio turned into Allied Radio and is doing quite well, thank you
very much.

Michael Black wrote:

) writes:
Allied Radio turned into Radio Shack,didn't they.I have an old Allied
Radio catalog floating around here somewhere.Hey,sometimes I forget
which one of my webtv addies I happen to be useing (I have Six,count em
Six) at the moment.Hence my flowerinThWater thingy.
cuhulin

No. Tandy briefly owned Allied, having already bought Radio Shack.
There was a brief time in 1971 (I seem to recall checking the magazines
once and it changed within that year) when Radio Shack was called "Allied
Radio Shack" but only briefly. From when this has come up before,
Radio Shack had to sell off Allied, because of conglomeration laws or
something like that, and it stood alone for some years/decades until
it was bought up by someone else, though it remained as Allied.

"Allied Radio (now known as Allied Electronics) is a company with a long eight
decade
history. It was founded in Chicago, IL. in 1928. Its purpose was to distribute
radio parts for
Columbia Radio Corp. By 1932, Allied was selling electronic parts by catalog.
Storefront sales
operations were established with the goal of selling to amateur radio operators
and electronics
experimenters. During WWII, Allied devoted itself to the war effort by handling
government
contracts and high-priority industrial needs. This was Allied's first real
experience in industrial
electronics. After the war, Allied continued to sell to the consumer and
industrial markets.
Sometime around 1962, Allied Electronics was created as a subsidiary of Allied
Radio. In 1971,
Allied was acquired by Tandy (now Radio Shack Corp.) and moved its headquarters
to Fort
Worth, Texas. Around 1981, Spartan Manufacturing acquired the company. In 1997,
Avnet
took over ownership. In 1999, Allied Electronics was acquired by
Electrocomponents plc of
the United Kingdom. Allied Electronics continues to sell electronic components
by catalog and
Internet ordering.

Allied Radio produced a line of kits under the Knight label. They were called
Knight-Kits.
Although not as extensive a line as Heathkit, they had many offerings in test
equipment.
Amateur radio, SWL, audio, entertainment and educational/experimenter kits
rounded out their
product line".

via http://www.qsl.net/kb7rgg/

dxAce
Michigan
USA

About five years ago I mentioned a gadget I had bought at a local Radio
Shack store to a lady in England.She said the Radio Shack stores in
England are called Tandy stores.There is or used to be a Tandy Leather
store here in Jackson at the old Zayre shopping center on Terry Road.I
haven't been out that way in quite a while,so I don't know if the store
is still there or not.Let me check my phone book right quick,,,,,,,,, I
don't see the store listed in my phone book,so I guess it isn't there
anymore.Didn't Tandy Leather used to have something to do with the Tandy
electronics stores? I could be mistaken though.
cuhulin