On May 6, 10:01*am, Richard Casady
wrote:
On Tue, 5 May 2009 18:01:38 -0700 (PDT),

wrote:
I am a bit younger but the first time I ever did a repair was taking
apart a tube CB radio and bringing the tubes to radio shack where they
had a tester.. *It was a big box about the size of a video game.. You
plugged in the tube and hit the button.. I think I was about 8-10 at
the time.

When I was a kid there was a tube tester at the drug store. Radio
Shack sold to radio amateurs mostly, and it was downtown. Everything
was downtown there were no malls.

Casady

Yep, and Heathkit kits were a spin off. My older brother built a
Heathkit shortwave radio, then a Heathkit guitar amp! Man, we used to
stay up at night and listen to that shortwave radio, and to us kids
stuck in nowhere, NY, it was like listening to another world! Same
with when we'd get AM skip and listen to WWVA in Wheeling, WVa. It
seemed exotic to think we were listening to someone talking that was
that far away!