[Boatanchors] RS.. was soldering/desoldering

[GBrown]

Radio shack's in this area are geared to cell phones, gps systems and things
for tomorrow. They still have a few speaker, stingy selection of parts and
the sales person didn't even know what the word "coax" was. I heard rumors
that the end is near, VERY near.
Regards,
Gary...WZ1M
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
To: <jfor at quik.com>; "carolew" <carolew at bellatlantic.net>
Cc: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>; "rayfri" <rayfri at highstream.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] RS.. was soldering/desoldering


> In all fairness gentlemen, Radio Shack dropped the sales of almost all
> short-wave receivers, antennas and antenna kits, almost all Amateur Radio
> handheld and/or mobile or base units, Ham antennas, radio accessories, a
> decent variety of coax for TX/RX applications, 'decent' audio equipment,
> 'decent' audio speakers and on and on. Since they have unfortunately
chosen
> to compete in a market with some serious long ball sluggers, I rather
> suspect they will be closing their doors within a few short years.
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com>
> To: "carolew" <carolew at bellatlantic.net>
> Cc: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>; "rayfri" <rayfri at highstream.net>
> Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 8:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] RS.. was soldering/desoldering
>
>
> > carolew wrote:
> >
> >> [snip] In retrospect, it looks like Radio Shack made a mistake shifting
> >> from electronics/parts to cell phones, cell phones and more cell
phones.
> >> [snip]
> >
> > Really? If they had stayed with parts, they would have gone broke 20
years
> > ago. I buy perhaps $10 every couple of months, I've never seen ANYONE
else
> > buying parts. BTW, I'm in one of the 2 high tech capitals of the US.
> >
> > Almost no one builds stuff anymore.
> >
> > -John
> >
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