[Boatanchors] Radio, Inc. of Tulsa, Oklahoma
williamhf
williamhf at worldnet.att.net
Sun May 29 17:15:58 EDT 2005
Grant/NQ5T mentioned Radio, Inc.
I've only tuned into Boat Anchors of late so perhaps that Radio
shop/store in Tulsa, OK has been mentioned here before.
A ham advised me, maybe gave me, a book which explained radio
function, back in 1947. I wish I could remember the name/author of
the book. It was quite elementary but led its reader from
crystal sets up through regen. receivers through the superheterodyne
schematic and explanation of the superhet stages.
Anyhow, at the back end of the book a simple receiver circuit
was shown. I went to Radio Inc and bought the parts.
The Schematic called for a simple tube, maybe something like an 01A,
and I bought that tube at Radio, Inc., Tulsa, and built the little
reciver in my Dad's garage.
Not long after, B.F. McCoy, W5OSN, pointed me to ham radio.
"Kac" has been gone for many years now, but he was a great
inspiration.
My first receiver, a National NC-57 was bought at Radio, Inc., Tulsa.
Money was exceptionally scarce and so, Grant, I know what you meant
by "drool" just looking through the Radio, Inc. store and its stuff for sale.
I've always thought the store's name, Radio, Inc., was about the
best name for a ham radio shop I could imagine. When you called the
store on the phone, the man who answered the phone always said,
"Radio Ink" (so it was pronounced by staff and customers)
and you knew you were in the right place.
Anyone else ever visit Radio, Inc. in Tulsa back in those years?
Does any radio store have that name today?
Bill
W4DSR
FL
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>Message: 1
>Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 10:59:07 -0400
>From: <n_griggs at bellsouth.net>
>Subject: [Boatanchors] Manual for RF Communications RF-150B
>To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
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>I have already posted this to the Harris list but didn't have any luck with my search so I am posting here for those that are not on the Harris list. I am trying to locate a service manual for a RF Communications (Harris) RF-150B transceiver. It is a VHF high band transceiver that was used on the RCC/IMTS mobiletelephone systems. It even has a built in duplexer for full duplex operation. From looking at the RF finals, it should probably put out about 60 watts - there are two transistors in parallel that are rated at about 40 watts. I want to retune it to 2 meters and use as a low power repeater - ideal for point to point communications during ARES operations. A service manual would be nice (which is what I am trying to locate) but I have reverse engineered transceivers in the past to get them where I want them. I have already contacted Harris and all they had was a manual on how to connect a 'scrambler' to the unit. Any help is appreciated.
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>Neal KC4YCM
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>Message: 2
>Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:07:08 -0500
>From: "Jim Wilhite" <w5jo at brightok.net>
>Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] RATSHACK?
>To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
>Message-ID: <003901c5c507$76548260$0201a8c0 at Wilhite>
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>Radio Shack was a stand alone company many years ago the Tandy purchased.
>Tandy Stores (remember them?) sold leather, leather goods, leather
>shoelaces, etc. Now you don't see a Tandy Store anywhere. Guess the profit
>was in electronics.
>
>Radio Shack was one of the first retail companies to sell computers across
>the counter. Who could forget those famous Radio Shack computers. That is
>when they begin to get away from parts.
>
>Maybe those "Lifetime" tubes taught them a lesson? I had a friend give me a
>WRL 755A VFO recently and all three tubes were Lifetime by Realistic, a
>Radio Shack brand. I don't know about today, but a few years back I took a
>bad Realistic tube to RS to have them replace it. It really baffled the
>sales person who picked up the phone and called his district manager who
>instructed him to replace it.
>
>The store was a franchise and the guy didn't like it because it wasn't as
>simple as them sending a new piece to him. I don't know if they paid him or
>gave him stock credit for the tube, but he ordered another for me which did
>not have "Lifetime" on it. It did have "Realistic" embossed on the
>envelope.
>
>Who else would honor that kind of warranty today? I don't know if they
>would still do that, but I will tell you the employees receive bonuses based
>on quotas for sales. They received commission for each sale, that is part
>of the reason they don't want to fool with resistors when they can get much
>more money for selling a telephone or battery. So why would they know about
>50 cent caps, resistors, or for that matter stock those parts?
>
>73 Jim
>W5JO
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "James Duffer" <dufferjames at hotmail.com>
>To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 8:40 AM
>Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] RATSHACK?
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>>It's about time a post acknowledges the good points about Radio Shack.
>>Convenience and quick emergency type needs is where they come in handy.
>>Many a field day operation was saved by a quick radio shack purchase. As
>>far as the knowledge possessed by the workers at RS, I don't see that they
>>are in any worse shape than other "minimum wage" employees.
>>
>>The only radio shack in my area is getting ready to close, it was one of
>>those "independent" type (kinda like some of the Macdonalds) operating in
>>a furniture store. Now the nearest radio shack will be about 50 miles
>>away (one way), so that the only redeeming features is moot! Long live RS
>>and may many benefit from their convenience.
>>
>>P.S. I have no connection with RS or Tandy, just an occasional customer.
>>Didn't that part of Tandy spin off from Allied electronics? I remember
>>Allieds big catalog that use to be sent to the occasional purchaser. I
>>know they are still in business and I ordered a part from them for my
>>Weller type pencil gun soldering iron.
>>
>>de wd4air
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>Message: 3
>Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 11:16:04 EDT
>From: Jamesnf at aol.com
>Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] RATSHACK?
>To: ka2hlw at netzero.net, boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
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>In a message dated 5/29/2005 4:42:11 AM Central Standard Time,
>ka2hlw at netzero.net writes:
>Lafayette radio, then Heathkit, now Ratshack, your local radio supply store
>is no more.
>I guess we get what we ask for.
>
>Jim W9TM
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>Message: 4
>Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 08:17:43 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] RATSHACK?
>To: James Duffer <dufferjames at hotmail.com>,
> boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
>Message-ID: <20050529151743.45217.qmail at web52908.mail.yahoo.com>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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>During the 1960s and into the 1970s Allied Radio (100
>N. Western Avenue, Chicago, Illinois) started a chain
>of retail stores just like Tandy's Radio Shack. In
>the early 1970s Tandy bought out Allied. Some of the
>Allied stores were "converted" to Radio Shack stores
>and others, especially if located near an existing
>Radio Shack store, were closed.
>
>Not too long after Tandy bought Allied the Justice
>Department of the United States government started
>proceedings against Tandy for anti-trust violations.
>To "settle" this, Tandy sold off the parts business
>(now Allied Electronics). However, since the retail
>stores had been either closed or turned into Radio
>Shack stores nothing was done about them.
>
>Radio Shack started in the Boston area as an amateur
>radio dealership. Eventually that operation had
>expanded into quite a few specialty stores dealing
>with hi-fi, experimenters, as well as amateur radio.
>Tandy Leather Company (out of Fort Worth, Texas) was
>"looking for" a means of expanding their consumer
>sales base and bought the Radio Shack stores.
>Eventually Radio Shack was separated from its amateur
>radio "roots" until it has become a battery, cellular
>telephone, etc., that it is today.
>
>Glen, K9STH
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>--- James Duffer <dufferjames at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>
>Didn't that part of Tandy spin off from Allied
>electronics? I remember Allieds big catalog that use
>to be sent to the occasional purchaser. I know they
>are still in business and I ordered a part from them
>for my Weller type pencil gun soldering iron.
>
>Glen, K9STH
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>Message: 5
>Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 11:19:19 EDT
>From: Jamesnf at aol.com
>Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] RATSHACK?
>To: ka2hlw at netzero.net, boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
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>In a message dated 5/29/2005 4:42:11 AM Central Standard Time,
>ka2hlw at netzero.net writes:
>I live in a town that has 27 active hams, so I think my ANSWER was an
>outright lie. Radio Shack refuses to cater to hams anymore.
>Perhaps Mouser will open a few hundred local retail stores across the country
>to serve the ham community.
>
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>Message: 6
>Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 08:42:28 -0700
>From: Vic Rosenthal <vic at rakefet.com>
>Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Tank circuits.
>To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
>Message-ID: <4299E2E4.80900 at rakefet.com>
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>Ken Hickman wrote:
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>>Thanks for the many responses to my request for information about
>>tank circuits that maintain optimum L/C ratio thruout the tuning range.
>>It appears that what I am looking for is the MB-150 model.
>>
>>
>
>That is exactly what the MB150L is NOT. It is a multiband tuner which
>covers a wide frequency range with two stagger-tuned parallel circuits,
>each of which covers about a 2:1 range -- with widely varying Q. You
>will get a wide range without bandswitching; you won't get an optimum
>L/C ratio!
>
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