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Re:A History of Misses for RadioShack by niels_olson on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @11:49PM (#8328490)
The maker vision is where it's at! Did you ever get one of their make-a-radio kits? I wrapped my own shortwave coils!

Look at this parts list: who's going to fill this void?

http://antiqueradio.org/econoceanic.htm

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Re:A History of Misses for RadioShack by ghaff on Wednesday September 17, 2014 @12:14AM (#8328570)
I had some electronic kits in that vein--not sure if they were Radio Shack or not. Just observing that I'm not sure how big a part of their business that sort of thing ever was.

I think your link observes though that someone could put such kits together and sell them over the Internet pretty effectively :-)

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