[R-390] Surplus location

[William A Kulze]

Thanks Dennis, that might be the place. I think I went there once for some cable. Seems like there was a place somewhere around Reseda and Sherman Way. I know there was a place down there where I bought my first shortwave radio, a Panasonic RF-2200, for $60, in the mid '80s, but that might have been a pawn shop. Yeah, there were some places out there that were like surplus heaven! And, yes, no place to be in an earthquake! I worked a couple years for a small place in Santa Rosa called Haltex Electronics, IIRC. There was a Haltek in Santa Clara and one of the founders split from them and started Haltex and his son was running it when I worked there. There was one fellow who came in there a lot that was clearing out and I wound up with a lot of his stuff. Quite a good intro to boat anchors, and besides radios I got some old test equipment so that I could also do alignments and such on them.

Thanks again,
Bill W2NVD

From: Dennis Kidder [mailto:w6dq at att.net]
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 9:43 AM
To: William A Kulze; R-390 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [R-390] Surplus location

Bill,

Are you referring to Apex Electronics?  They are still in business: http://www.apexelectronic.com/

They were/are probably the largest surplus dealer in the Los Angeles area.  I don't recall seeing R-390As there (which is not to say that there weren't) but there was definitely equipment stacked to the ceiling!  (My all-time favorite surplus "joint" with stuff stacked to the ceiling was JJ Glass in downtown LA.  Long gone, but great memories!  Neither one a place you wanted to be in an earthquake!)

73,

-dennis W6DQ
Fullerton CA DM13av