[WVARC] Henry Radio QRT

[Josh Fiden]

I remember Eddie Principe's electronic surplus shop. It was on the north side of
Ventura Blvd in Woodland Hills west of Topanga. I can't remember the name. I
used to go in there, I'm guessing I was 12, and rifle through all the stuff
until he threw me out...

73,
Josh W6XU (ex-WN6VUD, WA6VUD)

Quoting Tree <tree at kkn.net>:

> On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 04:24:50PM -0700, Joseph M. Wade wrote:
> 
> > I loved Johnson Equipment and always wanted a Ranger.  If you go to
> > California Adventure, they have a Johnson Ranger in the Redword Forest
> > walk at what is supposed to be a ranger station.
> 
> Ah - memories.
> 
> My dad knew a ham at work - who sold him a Viking 1 and 122 VFO that I 
> added to my station in 1968.  It died in my first CD party when I was 
> QSYing from 20 meters to 40 meters when the glass roller inductor 
> shattered.  I bought a Viking II from club member WB6OLD.  I remember it
> had a bunch of car rally stickers on it.
> 
> I think my dad tried to buy an S-120 from Henry Radio, but they were 
> out.  We eventually ordered one from Allied, but it took FOREVER to
> get it.  I think they lost our order.  I would be out waiting every
> afternoon for it to be delivered.  I think that was in 1965 or so.
> 
> When I was building my novice rig, we went to Henry's on Olympic to 
> get some parts.  They were trying to convince me that I only needed
> a phono jack for the RF output (after all - Collins uses them).  I 
> still went with a SO-239.
> 
> I never did buy a radio from them - but would occasionally drop in 
> whenever I drove by.  I remember walking out and seeing Warren Davis
> who was still K6NA and exchanging funny insults.  
> 
> As far as HRO, I bought a TS-700 from Jim Rafferty at whatever the
> name of the radio store he started up was before HRO bought him out.
> I think N6TV worked their for a bit - was it Comtech?
> 
> What was that surplus place that WA6QDQ ran for awhile?  And didn't 
> Mike Seedman work at a radio store for awhile?  Who can remember seeing
> ham equipment at West Valley Electronics (gee, I am not even sure I 
> remember that).
> 
> Memory - it is the second thing to go - and I forget what the first 
> thing was.
> 
> Tree
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