[grc] NEED A CLEARINGHOUSE FACEBOOK PAGE FOR Radio Shack Replacements (from) WHERE do DIY'ers go for your electronic parts now that insane management killed Radio Shack ?

[Paul Bame]

Kinda hard to beat the triple-entendre page name of RadioShit but the FB
police may not like it :-)


Paul (pablito) Bame
Prometheus Radio Project <http://prometheusradio.org/>, Engineering Director
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On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 6:15 PM, Max via grc <grc at maillist.peak.org> wrote:

> Good for Needham MA!
>
> This gives me an idea, however!
>
> We need a centralized place to exchange Radio Shack replacement sources!
>
> And make sure that the Radio Shack management never works at anything above
> a janitorial position ever again!
>
> So help me think of the name of a Facebook page for us to gather this
> information and shame and Blacklist the Radio Shack management!
>
> What they've done to the DIY community is far worse then the many silly
> crimes for which people are never able to find decent employment after!
>
> Every name I think of for a Facebook page is too clumsy.
>
> "Radio Shack Replacements and Box Up RS Management" or whatever...
>
> Sincerely, Max
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jun 16, 2017 5:11 PM, "David Goodman" <david at ibisradio.org> wrote:
>
> You-Do-It Electronics in Needham, MA
> http://www.youdoitelectronics.com/
>
> cheers,
> dg
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Max via grc <grc at maillist.peak.org>
> wrote:
>
> > WHERE do DIY'ers go for your electronic parts now that insane management
> > killed Radio Shack ?
> >
> > I didn't expect the transmitter to have a BNC RF output!  So this is
> what I
> > need to get back on the air!
> > https://www.radioshack.com/products/bnc-connector Catalog #: 2780120
> >
> >
> > "In a timeline created by Bloomberg, it was revealed that as a DIY store,
> > RadioShack became big. Geeks had somewhere to go to purchase things for
> > their projects.
> >
> > It’s ironic that RadioShack is reaching its end at a time when DIY
> projects
> > are re-emerging, especially with the Internet of Things (IoT) taking
> > centerstage. There are now IoT solutions that can be created or enhanced
> by
> > tinkerers in their own homes just by purchasing a few parts from DIY
> shops
> > like RadioShack. But RadioShack’s people failed to leverage the IoT
> hype."
> >
> > https://siliconangle.com/blog/2015/02/05/once-radioshack-is-
> > gone-where-will-diy-ers-go/
> >
> > --
> > --
> > Sincerely, Christopher Maxwell
> > Richmond, Va.
> > Keep the long side to the sun (south) !!
> > And higher than the ground around.
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> >
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> >
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