[Boatanchors] A visit to Fair Radio - photos

[Jim Wiley]

We have our own version up this way.  Steve Tolley, KL7FZ,  in Wasilla 
runs an electronics surplus business called (I think) Wasilla radio.  5 
acres of warehouses stuffed to the ceilings, 40-foot connex trailers 
similarly packed, open storage, a tent or three,  and the odd school bus 
or two full of an eclectic collection of electronic cast-offs, radios, 
antennas (up to at least a 24 foot dish), tower sections,  and just 
plain "stuff".  I will attempt to get  some pix sometime this summer and 
put them up on the net.  Neat (meaning orderly) it's not, neat (meaning 
cool) it is.   I think Steve has a web site, but I don't know the URL.  
He does sell stuff on eBay from time to time.


- Jim, KL7CC

 

jeff wrote:
> On 05/22/2012 08:54 PM, Roger Shultz wrote:
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>> Yes, still today there are things there I clearly remember from 57 years ago
>> as a 12 year old. I visited Fair on my way to Dayton and as I went in the
>> door, the smell hit me, yep same old stuff!
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> We deprived (and depraved) Philthydelphians have nowhere to shop.  The 
> last electronic parts place I know of shut last year.  I'm probably not 
> old enough to know the old BA scene.
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