[Milsurplus] Electronic/Military surplus stores

[Jack Antonio]

On 3/4/2018 10:18 AM, Ron Lawrence W4RON wrote:
> I really miss the old surplus store that used to be in Charlotte.
> it was called Surplus electronics, my high school electronics

I was a little late for the San Francisco surplus stores, but there was 
one in
North Sacramento, located in an old car dealership building. I am pretty
sure it received gear from McClellan and the Army depot in Sacramento.
This was in the mid to late 70s. IIRC, it was called Slagle Surplus, or
something like that.

It had piles of the 618 family Collins airborne sets, and one time it 
had pallets
full of incomplete KWM-2s, R-392s, T-195s. At that time though, my main
interest was in FM and repeaters, and on one trip I found a number of
Motorola Motrans (LLT types, for you Motorola veterans out there)
which were low split, covering 2M.  20 bucks each,
no accessories, and I bought a number of them.

Then there was an actual ham store, which moved around a few 
times(Selectronics??), and
in its final incarnation, wound up just down the street from the now 
closed store
I mentioned above. Quite a bit of surplus military stuff, shelves of 
"arc5" gear
but all modified. At one time they had a big stash of ARC-58 equipment.

Last I heard(late 80s), the roof collapsed during a heavy rain fall, and 
they were gone
forever.

Then there was Valley Surplus, mostly a components place, but they did
have a bright green BC-348. Should have bought it.

One of the Bay Area surplus stores opened up a branch store in Reno
in the mid 90s, mostly components. When it initially opened, it had
quite a bit of activity, but they never replaced or replenished the stock,
and then they closed, saying there was  no business.


Jack Antonio
WA7DIA