[W8MWA] Fwd: Engineering Radio

[Bill Shultz]

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Well, crap
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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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