[Hallicrafters] Re: Electronics stores and internet sales

[Peter Markavage]

You migrate to where the money can be made. "We" lost our technological
edge years ago.

Pete, wa2cwa
http://www.manualman.com
 
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:05:25 EDT HallicrafterSX28 at aol.com writes:
> This is a nationwide phenomenon.Electronics parts stores are going 
> out of  
> business.Marwac Electronics here in Pasadena CA ,where I used to buy 
> parts ,  
> closed it's store back in 04.Then C&H Surplus another local 
> electronics  surplus 
> store is now going out of business after 60 years ! This is just 
> sign of  the 
> times .
> Now I do all of my electronics shopping online ,tubes ,resistors  
> ,capacitors 
> etc etc.except for the solder that I can still find at my local  
> Radio 
> Shack(They too have closed down one of their stores)
>  
> As an electronics instructor I've seen my classes sizes reduce from 
> at one  
> time of 40 or 50 students down to 5 or 6 students! Nobody it seems 
> wants to  
> study Electronics and engineering anymore ! Looks like the US is 
> slowly  loosing 
> its technological edge .
> AMK"Nick"