[Hallicrafters] Old B-A

[David Thompson]

In addition there was World radio (ole Leo is still with us at 96), Barry, Walter Ashe, Harrison (I have the 1959 catalog) plus virtually every state had at least one electronics parts store that sold ham gear.  Even if the smaller stores did not sell ham gear they sold tubes and components.  Ack Radio (Atlanta and Birmingham) were among the best in the south.  Ack is still in business today.

Dave K4JRB
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: TC Dailey 
  To: Spike Dennis ; hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net 
  Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 10:15 AM
  Subject: [Hallicrafters] Old B-A


  Nice to hear your memories, Spike.  I was with them from 1971... almost to the bitter end (former wife WAS).  The best unknown hero of B-A was a man named Ellis Eldrid - he ran the "ham shack" in those later years.  Ellis never had a ticket, but he sure did know the gear.  Always a straight-up guy, and you always got the BEST deal he could give you (and then some).  I still have the D-104 I got with my SWAN 500C (he gave me the mike), and use it with the Viking Valiant & SX-62A (AM station).

  I'm actually composing the "history" of BA, as I remember it; also based on stories from the few others I knew while I was there.  Any of you out there, who have B-A stories you'd like to relate, please send them to me.  After all, we grew up in the grandest times of radio - what with ALLIED, LAFAYETTE, Burstein-Applebee, HENRY, and so many others who have faded from the pages.

  Tom Dailey
  WØEAJ
  Denver, CO
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