[Boatanchors] RS.. was soldering/desoldering

[M. Ross Dumke]

I concur, when I retired I wanted to start a small PCB business for the
experimentor, that was a flat out strike. Build? Gosh, most can't handle the
batteries going dead. I part time teach, we are not doing very well, folks.
Think? most of the "techs" coming from the trade schools took 3 months
training, minimum, before I would allow them to troubleshoot our equipment.
Our official policy was 2 years before they could test up for the technician
rating. Why did we lose the technology, big business, dumbing down students,
et al. No wonder Nippon Electric makes 90 % of the laptops in the world, I
don't believe the contemporary student would hold still to trouble shoot a
short circuit. Sorry guys, I worked for Radio Shack and was a production
test equipment builder for Tandy Apparatus and Magnetics. When Tandy died,
as far as I am concerned when John Roach started putting "appliances" in the
stores, the death knell began. P.S. almost lost my job arguing over what a
2:1 SWR was, the AA japenese people of Tandy said it was a 100 ohm load, I
was given a choice, shutup or my successor would build it-sigh!
N5TDE at EARTHLINK.NET

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[mailto:boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Duane Fischer,
W8DBF
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 9:40 PM
To: jfor at quik.com; carolew
Cc: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net; rayfri
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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