[BC] HSC

[Ron Castro]

HSC...that's the place that's three blocks from my stations!  I don't know 
how I could have survived without them.  I go there so much, that if they 
don't see me for a few days, they worry that I died...well, almost.

Check out their site at www.halted.com .

Ron Castro
Chief Technical Officer
Results Radio, LLC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Joseph" <w7amx at hotmail.com>
To: <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 7:55 PM
Subject: [BC] (no subject)


> One place thats been around since the mid-60's is HSC Electronic Supply 
> (aka: Halted Specialties).  I worked for them for a number of 
> years...guess its the packrat in me that kept me around. <g> (still put in 
> a few hours in their test lab for them).  I found some unused Intel 4004 
> CPU chips not too long ago.  Although its dwindling, they still stock 2 
> and 3 watt carbon resistors and a fair assortment of 100WVDC+ caps.  Also 
> plenty of thru-hole ICs.  Most broadcast engineers in the Bay Area know 
> about HSC, or simply 'Halted'(started by two guys...you guessed it, Hal 
> and Ted)  Hal just passed away last month. He was W6YJL...a great guy and 
> a shrewd business man.  He used to call me when I worked there and, with 
> his big booming voice would say...Hi Dave...hows DX?"  Its another one of 
> those places that you can spend days just browsing and find almost 
> anything electronic.  Don't know how many times I've heard from one of the 
> asiles..."hey, look at this...I helped engineer the design on 
> these...ha!".  They are distributors for lots of needed supplies (ty 
> wraps, Chemtronics stuff, network cable/connectors, tools...etc).
>
> Dave Joseph, CBRE CBNT
> W7AMX
>
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> Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 23:45:06 -0500
> From: "CBoone" <CBoone at earthlink.net>
> Subject: RE: [BC] electronic shops
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> Amateur radio numbers are not dwindling...the ranks of licensed ham radio
> ops is actually growing (though the QUALITY of them is questionable)..
>
> With modern equipment using SMD, HOW are you going to repair/replace such?
> You DON'T..its all throwaway today..So why should manufacturers sell in
> small quantities ICs such as 4000 series CMOS, etc in DIP sizes to small
> stores? Its all ab out the economics......most stores that are still open
> that sell such do it in large cities (Houston still has EPO and ACE but
> that's it..City Electronics and Gateway are gone)
>
> Chris
> WB5ITT
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