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From: prg@mgweed.uucp (Gunsul)
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Subject: Re: When I Found Out, I Was Shocked!
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Date: 4 Feb 91 15:55:36 GMT
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In article <16667@accuvax.nwu.edu>, prg@mgweed.uucp (Gunsul) writes:

< Pat, a 100-watt linear amplifier for CB!!??  I thought that was
< illegal??

< [Moderator's Note: Indeed they are illegal for use on Citizens Band
< frequencies in the USA; i.e. 26.965 - 27.405 megs.  They can be
< purchased in the USA for export purposes only, although a lot of guys
< buy them claiming they will be used only in the ten meter band while
< knowing good and well the amp can easily be tuned to eleven meters
< (CB) with no hassle.  For that matter, I think the FCC has banned the
< use of linear amps in ten meters also; they're not fooled! About 25
< years ago a fellow sold me a tuneable ten/eleven meter rig made by
< Allied Radio. (Allied Radio was Radio Shack's name thirty years ago
< for you young'uns reading this.)  He threw in a bunch of stuff: the
< linear, a phone patch, lots of RG-8 coax, the Sams Photo-Facts book,
< etc. I never did use the linear.  PAT]

Thanks Pat, I'm proud of you!  'Had me worried for a second!

Allied Radio!  I remember the thrill of getting my mother to take me
into Chicago to pick up the speakers for my "Sweet Sixteen" speaker
encloser which I built from the plans in "Popular Electronics"!  Those
were the days.


Phil - WB9AAX


[Moderator's Note: Then you no doubt remember the big warehouse store
they operated at Western Ave. and Washington Blvd., right across the
street from Olson Electronics (remember them also?).  In the late
fifties and early sixties we'd go shopping there on Sunday. Unless you
went in right at 10 AM when they opened you could count on being there
several hours before you got out, what with the sales people having to
call to the back for 'stock checks' and such. Credit approval could
take another thirty minutes (they did their own credit in house) and
you would then wait until your name was called on the public address
speaker: "Townson, go to cashier seven". You'd wait in line there for
maybe ten minutes to sign off on everything and pick up your package.
After Tandy/Allied closed the store, it was vacant for a few months;
since that time it has been a local office for Illinois Public Aid.
Olson Electronics remained open several more years but I guess they
are gone now also.  That whole neighborhood is the pits now:
stereotypical inner city advanced urban decay. Nothing around there
now but the welfare office, a couple of liquor stores and the
omnipresent Illinois State Lottery agents.  *Ancient* painting on the
side of the welfare office now mostly faded away welcomes everyone to
Allied Radio, open Sundays, HAymarket 1 - 2600, parking for customers
only.  PAT]