From wr8s.wv at gmail.com  Mon Jan  5 15:47:13 2015
From: wr8s.wv at gmail.com (Bill Shultz)
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 15:47:13 -0500
Subject: [W8MWA] WeatherBug
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via @WeatherBug
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From ditzian at windstream.net  Wed Jan  7 17:46:28 2015
From: ditzian at windstream.net (Jan)
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 17:46:28 -0500
Subject: [W8MWA] Taco Thursday
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From ditzian at windstream.net  Wed Jan 14 08:25:05 2015
From: ditzian at windstream.net (Jan)
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 08:25:05 -0500
Subject: [W8MWA] Taco Thursday
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From wr8s.wv at gmail.com  Fri Jan 16 01:33:16 2015
From: wr8s.wv at gmail.com (Bill Shultz)
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 01:33:16 -0500
Subject: [W8MWA] Club Member Wins National Ham Radio Competition
Message-ID: <CAL98FUEyuo9KE5osXiQ=rChF+eEcveHmUvSN94zCsUOV8+a4sA@mail.gmail.com>

QST QST QST de WR8S WR8S WR8S

Let it be known that John Jacobs KD8VMF has finished 1st. in the 8 call
zone in the ARRL ROOKIE ROUNDUP CONTEST. This is a fantastic feat John....
job well done. We will want to hear details next Thursday at Los Mariachi.

Congratulations John!

See the certificate attached below.
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From wr8s.wv at gmail.com  Fri Jan 16 08:51:53 2015
From: wr8s.wv at gmail.com (Bill Shultz)
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 08:51:53 -0500
Subject: [W8MWA] Fwd: Engineering Radio
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Date: Jan 16, 2015 7:10 AM
Subject: Engineering Radio
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Well, crap
<http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EngineeringRadio/~3/VbfkhKfcD9s/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email>

Posted: 15 Jan 2015 04:54 PM PST
[image: Radio Shack Store, Courtesy of Wikipedia]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Puerto_Vallarta_Radio_Shack.jpg>

Radio Shack Store, Courtesy of Wikipedia

Radio Shack (AKA, RadioShack, The Shack, Tandy Corporation, Realistic,
Optimus, etc) appears to be filing for Bankruptcy if the Wall Street
Journal and Reuters
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/15/us-radioshack-bankruptcy-idUSKBN0KO04W20150115>
is to be believed.  I see the words ?private equity firm? in the article,
that does not bode well.

Radio Shack of late has become a glorified cell phone store.  It used to be
one could get some emergency repair parts, an FM antenna or a CB radio as
the need arose.  As a young lad, it was fun to poke around and look at the
various radio kits and other assorted fun things.  My first shortwave radio
was a kit from Radio Shack, assembly finish just in time to hear the Vatican
Radio?s <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Radio> announcement that
Pope Paul IV <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Paul_VI> had died.

What happened to Radio Shack is fairly typical; what was once a niche
market for hobbyists and experimenters tried to go main stream and lost
their core customers.  There are still plenty of electronics hobbyists out
there, look at the Amateur Radio community as an example.  Yet, that market
was abandoned for the more lucrative general consumer electronics market.
Unfortunately, Radio Shack never produced high quality stuff, so their
reputation in the consumer electronics market was not that great.  Thus,
not being known for anything, they slowly slipped into irrelevance.
Related Posts:

   - Radio Shack catalog archive
   <http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2012/10/radio-shack-catalog-archive/>
   - Modifying the old Broadcast Electronics Transmitter
   <http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2013/08/modifying-the-old-broadcast-electronics-transmitter/>
   - Happy Independence day, Extremist
   <http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2014/07/happy-independence-day-extremist/>
   - RoHS and Electronics Reliability
   <http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2012/04/rohs-and-electronics-reliability/>
   - What bitrate is needed to sound like analog FM?
   <http://www.engineeringradio.us/blog/2013/11/what-bitrate-is-needed-to-sound-like-analog-fm/>


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From ditzian at windstream.net  Wed Jan 21 21:33:28 2015
From: ditzian at windstream.net (Jan)
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:33:28 -0500
Subject: [W8MWA] Remember
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From ditzian at windstream.net  Thu Jan 29 07:22:23 2015
From: ditzian at windstream.net (Jan)
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 07:22:23 -0500
Subject: [W8MWA] Taco Thursday
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