Re: OT :Radio Shack

[mleuck <m.leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 21, 6:30=A0am, nick markowitz <nmarkow...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Dec 21, 2:36=A0am, G. Morgan <usenet_ab...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:40:58 -0800 (PST), Effenpig1
>
> > <dirtyspicev...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I'm lucky to have a true electronics store less
> > >than a block from where I live
>
> > I'm sure you can get the breadboards and everything else there, much
> > cheaper than Crap-Shack.
>
> Radio Shack
> Still sells them on line and at some of there bigger stores. Here in
> Pittsburgh what they have done is made 4 full stock stores which carry
> most stuff and the others nothing but junk.
> You have to wonder how Radio shack even stays in buisness with all the
> stupid decisions they have been making.
> they always made there money in parts but yet this is what they have
> gotten away from. I use to be able to go to local radio shack any time
> i needed a button or part or switch to keep things running at the
> radio station now they have none of it.
> Of course I saw a study the other day where the amount of people who
> do there own projects or tinker etc has gone way down they would
> rather buy it made or hire some one to do it.
> Dam shame
> I can remember as a kid the Heath Kit , Olsen Electronics and
> Cameradio , CRS etc stores all gone now.
> Of course we can blame the FCC and Amateur Radio community for this as
> well when they put all the radio class levels etc . which discouraged
> people from wanting to get involved in radio.
> and then the insistence on all the math to learn electronics as
> well.When in realty it was not needed.
> Yea we really did it to ourselves in this country when it come to
> technology and innovation.

Radio Shack is one of the biggest cell phone dealers in the world. The
decline of tinkering projects such as what was offered by Heath Kit
has nothing to do with the FCC or Amateur Radio. It's a general
decline in the desire to build those kits mostly due to the
advancement of microprocessors and transistors. People just don't care
for that stuff these days

Same with model rockets, slot cars etc