Old Allied Radio

[Ben Bradley]

At 09:16 PM 6/18/98 -0400, Brian Carling wrote:
>Visit a radio store today, while there are still some left!
>
>They are a DYING BREED!
>
>Our last major amateur radio retailer in Maryland just closed their
>doors for ever - as did EEB in nearby Virginia a few months ago!
>
>There is now only one MINOR dealership left in an older section of
>Baltimore, and I am not sure that they sell ANY new ham gear at all.
>
>We really have no more ham radio stores in Maryland.
>
>To my knowledge, nn the entire metro DC and Baltimore areas, there is
>now only ONE store left - an HRO outlet in nearby Woodbridge, VA...

   There's an HRO in the Atlanta/Doraville (or is that area Chamblee?)
area, on Buford Hiway a mile or two north of I-285. I regret to tell you
I still haven't been inside it. Maybe it's the lack of a license that
keeps mee from going in, though I know whoever's there will be glad to
sell me code tapes and license manuals...

>
>What a shame! As late as 1987 when I first moved to this area there
>was still a Heathkit store in Alexandria, VA, but that closed around
>1988 or so.

   There was a Heathkit store in Atlanta/Roswell (northern suburb of Atlanta)
that opened in about 1974. When the computers came out it became Heath/Zenith,
then later became an Apple Computer dealer as well, and somewhere in there
all the Heathkits disappeared. Haven't been by the area, dunno if it's still
a computer place and don't care, as they're a dime a dozen nowadays.

>Anyone remember ACK RADIO in Atlanta?

   I sort of do, I vaguely remember going there with my father when I was
age 6 to 10 or so. Are they still around? They were as of about 10 years
ago, mostly as an industrial-type electrical/electronic supply house,
but as I recall they may have had a little amateur-specific stuff.

   There was a surplus store known as Delta Electronics that had nothing
especially ham-specific, but was the biggest (well, probably the only)
surplus electronics retail dealer in Atlanta. It opened on Buford Hiway,
about 2 miles inside I-285, in about 1976. In recent years they got into
PC clones, they have moved to a larger building a few miles away with a
name of Delta Computers, and now there's a big sign over what's left of
the surplus parts, saying we're expanding [the computer stuff, obviously],
make an offer on all parts.

   Anyone know of other surplus stores in/around Atlanta? Peachtree Quality
Salvage used to be legion many years ago.
   Hamfests and swapmeets still go on - The Atlanta Hamfestival is this
weekend, http://www.arrl.org has a hamfest calendar with links to more
info.

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