Fair Radio Sales in Lima, Ohio

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  • Опубликовано: 13 май 2024
  • Thanks Tim Sloan for the heads-up on the electronics surplus store "Fair Radio Sales" in Lima,OH. Leah and I had fun poking around in there. They are closing the business in June and will auction all off in August. Founded in 1947! Do you remember the ads? I Do. WG7D.
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  • @byterock
    @byterock 28 дней назад +3

    I am the generation that just missed that 'surplus' experience. I was just old enough to remember driving by shops like this but never went into one. ;)

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  27 дней назад

      They were so fun...like a museum that every thing is for sale. Thanks for watching WG7D

  • @WECB640
    @WECB640 Месяц назад +13

    Thank you for documenting this place. If only those walls could talk, the tales they'd tell would be epic. 73 OM

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  Месяц назад +1

      Thank you . Rather a historic business I would say.

  • @wb7ond
    @wb7ond Месяц назад +10

    Its like wandering thru Property Disposal on a military base.... Lots of neat older test equipment from back in my calibration lab days... I remember the Fair Radio Sales ads in the back of magazine in my youth. Great video thanks...

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  Месяц назад +1

      Thanks for watching!

  • @timsloan5662
    @timsloan5662 3 дня назад +1

    Thanks for the video. Would be great if someone bought it and kept it open. Imagine being a young kid getting into amateur radio and spending hours exploring that place.

  • @sanjithnair3266
    @sanjithnair3266 Месяц назад +4

    One of the great Video for who loves radios 🎉 Thank you and 73

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  Месяц назад

      Glad you enjoyed it. 73 WG7D

  • @kevinmccool3719
    @kevinmccool3719 Месяц назад +10

    I think Mr. Carlsons Lab should buy it out.

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  Месяц назад +1

      Good idea!

  • @courierdog1941
    @courierdog1941 27 дней назад +2

    I have ben dealing with Fair Radio since 1961 and even drove down with a friend while we were both still in High School. Many treasured memories.

  • @flyer617
    @flyer617 Месяц назад +4

    It's a real shame Phil is closing down. He has been an incredible resource for radios, parts and equipment for my entire life. His operation will be missed. I am hoping he is able to start a new operation which is much more manageable in size. There's nothing else like this place anywhere.

  • @d2sfavs
    @d2sfavs Месяц назад +3

    i bought some fly back transformers from these guys like 30 years ago.great people lots of neat stuff.thanks for the video.sad its closing but thank you for many years of service

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  Месяц назад +1

      Thanks for watching...It is sad on the closing. WG7D

  • @cvannette
    @cvannette Месяц назад +1

    I remember going to Fair Radio in my High School days, back in the 70s.

  • @AB1Vampire
    @AB1Vampire 23 дня назад +2

    Thank you for posting this video. Made several purchases from FRS over the years. Impromptu interaction with some history talk was priceless. Still, the end of Fair Radio Sales me sad. n2eye

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  23 дня назад

      Thanks for watching...it is sad to see it close. WG7D

  • @jhonsiders6077
    @jhonsiders6077 3 дня назад

    This place was the source of so many transmitters parts and other bits that put so many pirates on the air back in the days before EBay ! Getting tubes was always hard but these people had them all ! The legendary Allen Wiener mentioned them many times in his biography.

  • @MrElectrowhiz
    @MrElectrowhiz Месяц назад +4

    I remember the old catalogs. The descriptions were made on a typewriter and the heading for each of the items were made with Dymo vinyl tape. Looks as if each item was then laid out on a page and then photographed.

  • @RouterReports
    @RouterReports Месяц назад +4

    More boat anchors than the US Navy !
    Seriously though, the prop department at a Hollywood movie studio should buy this place.

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  Месяц назад

      Good idea!

  • @jhonsiders6077
    @jhonsiders6077 3 дня назад +1

    I have to go up there I saw some military antennas for vehicles!

  • @theoldbigmoose
    @theoldbigmoose Месяц назад +2

    My first scope came from Fair Radio Sales, as did the huge stepper motors driving my Bridgeport. Two more great places are Glenn's Surplus in Shelby OH, and JDM surplus in Crestline OH. JDM used to be called CTR.

  • @ProspectorsGhost
    @ProspectorsGhost Месяц назад +4

    Great Video. Thanks for producing it and sharing it. But three things.
    [1] Unfortunately such wonderful places like this have to close down and fall by the wayside.
    [2] But alas, the newer and younger hams would rather buy factory made ham equipment rather than do like the old hams did back in the old days of yesteryear of early ham radio and take surplus and/or used equipment then repair experiment with, and/or modify it to operational and usable ham radio equipment.
    [3] Also as you so stated they will auction off all that stuff and it will only end up at ham fests across the nation to be resold with jacked up high prices intended to gouge both the public as well as the Amateur Radio Hams who still want to find older and/or surplus radio equipment and parts in order to do like the old hams did back in the old days of yesteryear in early ham radio and take surplus and/or used equipment then repair, experiment with, and/or modify it to operational mode and usable ham radio equipment.
    I grew up in those earlier days of ham radio (back during the 1950’sand 1960’s but was never a licensed ham myself as bad as I have always wanted to be), and I still love those old ham radios and still envy all those old Licensed Ham Radio operators like yourself and others of which lived in the old days of yesteryear and in the early days of ham radio. Even though most of them are "Silent Keys" now.
    Back then, ham radio equipment could be bought for both reasonable and affordable small prices. Now-A-Days, the prices for both new and used Ham Radio equipment has sky-rocketed into out of this world of basically non-affordable prices which most newer and younger hams can no longer afford, especially the new beginning hams just trying to get started into ham Radio. Yes even now at the age of 74, I'm still trying once again to get my Beginning Technicians license in Ham Radio.
    Well, Why not. I've already (years ago), had a CB license back when they were still required (KAPD9331). Now as of this year, I've got a GMRS license (WSBP616), and yet there is nobody with GMRS radio's (or even a GMRS repeater), to be able to talk to in my rural farm area of Southern Idaho. But however, there are Ham Radio operators as well as Ham Repeaters and a Ham Radio Club in my area.
    Once again, Thank You for a great video pertaining to old surpus radio equipment. May God Bless both you and your "XYL". 73's to both of you.

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  Месяц назад +1

      Thank you. Very good points..thanks for watching...WG7D

  • @silverback3633
    @silverback3633 Месяц назад +1

    I never thought this store would on RUclips. I have been to this place in the 90s. Nothing is forever.

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  Месяц назад

      Very true. Thanks for watching,WG7D

  • @alanrogs3990
    @alanrogs3990 17 дней назад +1

    This place will be missed by me.

  • @GunsandRadios
    @GunsandRadios Месяц назад +2

    I have been to Lima a half dozen times and didn’t know that was there

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  Месяц назад +1

      Check it out before it closes! thanks for watching! 73,WG7D

  • @kd7alt
    @kd7alt 29 дней назад +1

    Their are several surplus places in Portland area. The on he is talking about is wacky Willie's surplus. Then we had R5D3, Cascade electronics, surplus gizmo's.

  • @Zzznorch
    @Zzznorch Месяц назад +2

    I used to order a lot when I was a kid back in them late 70’s and 80’s. Still have a lot of old military equipment I bought from them.

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  Месяц назад

      That's cool....part of history now....sad to see. Thanks for watching! WG7D

  • @va3ngc
    @va3ngc Месяц назад +1

    I didn't realize that this was on the way too and from Dayton and I could have stopped in. I will have to try and check it out before it closes, if I can.

  • @-Mark_F
    @-Mark_F Месяц назад +2

    I had ordered a few items from them in my high school days back in the 70s. It’s a shame to see it go. I never knew how large that facility is! IMHO, I think that they should make some arrangement with museums or the Smithsonian to preserve at least some of it for posterity.

  • @MIKROWAVE1
    @MIKROWAVE1 Месяц назад +2

    Wow a last look at Fair Radio! Of course many of us are interested in the few really collectable and useful pieces that were not shown like the R390 parts (we saw a glimpse), the T368 and BC-610 larger transmitters likely parts cars under the saw mill shed outside not shown etc... A lot of the valuable stuff is gone, no doubt. This is a great record of the end times.

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  Месяц назад

      Glad you enjoyed it. WG7D.

  • @courierdog1941
    @courierdog1941 28 дней назад +2

    It all be a sad day when Fair Radio sales closes it doors!

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  28 дней назад

      Yes, it will be. Such an institution! Thanks for Watching. WG7D

  • @AndreasAndersson-ve4jx
    @AndreasAndersson-ve4jx 29 дней назад

    I was always fascinated by their printed catalogs back in the 70/80:s...But the oldtime ham equipment, DIY & very few, very big (surplus) parts, which did a lot, i can imagine not many is into that anymore... But certainly you can still find projects in old ARRL handbooks & such...
    (I remember you could even order surplus Tommy guns... But not from Sweden... DEFENITELY not from Sweden...)

  • @Marcospu1mas
    @Marcospu1mas 7 дней назад +1

    fantastico WG7D, saude a voce e esposa.

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  7 дней назад

      Thanks so much!

  • @Subgunman
    @Subgunman Месяц назад +1

    I was here a little over 20 years ago with a friend after the Lima Hamfest. I do believe they hosted the Hamfest if my memory serves me right. Lots of interesting stuff, picked up on a couple of old items from there. Never forget that trip up there, that good friend of mine who was with me that day became a SK the very next day.
    I wonder who had built that building and what was their business, all of those overhead roll up doors in that warehouse.

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  Месяц назад +1

      Sorry for the loss of your friend. I thought the buildings looked a little like lumberyards I have seen ,...Thanks for watching! WG7D

  • @ftswarbill
    @ftswarbill 17 дней назад +1

    *It's pronounced 'Lime-aw' with the Ohio accent. Good stuff they got, I want some!*

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  16 дней назад

      Thanks,I was not sure. Thanks for watching. WG7D

  • @hamradios-wd8nvn
    @hamradios-wd8nvn Месяц назад +3

    Lima Ohio pronounced here locally as "lime-uh"; not "lee-muh" as in Lima Peru. 😁😁😁😁😁

  • @mikemcdonald5147
    @mikemcdonald5147 Месяц назад +1

    what a cool amazing place, I wish I had one like this close by. I would spend so much money there and so many hours.

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  Месяц назад

      YEP...Me too. 2200 mile drive for me. thanks for watching! WG7D

  • @Steven-re7xt
    @Steven-re7xt Месяц назад +2

    It used to live on east Elisabeth at lima...on my break from usar meetings and as a child I would hunt in the halls for parts. Remember God is just a prayer away as the clerk was religious. Tubes you won't find... antenna's ect at the lumber shop on 4th Street Lima. Get it while you can. We will never see another like It. Retired army sargent Williams. Former of the 983rd battalion Lima ohio

  • @LW-eg7ln
    @LW-eg7ln Месяц назад +1

    They had a good run. Unfortunately the generation of the surplus radios is thinning out and not much market for the stuff any more. Hate to see it go .. I hated to lose Heath and Radio Shack and Lafayette and Allied ..
    Thanks for the tour .. hope the owners enjoy a long and healthy retirement once everything is sold off.

  • @boots_n_coots
    @boots_n_coots Месяц назад +1

    Long after all the humans have left the planet Earth, Fair Radio will be carefully tended by a quiet team of robots. “Oil my back joints, that’s a good lad”.

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  Месяц назад

      😂...good one!

  • @vu3mes
    @vu3mes Месяц назад +1

    Wow. Too far from me😊 That’s a lot of radio history there, HROs Heathkits

  • @raymondkb2nzo788
    @raymondkb2nzo788 Месяц назад +1

    Sad to see this go the good old days.

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  Месяц назад

      Sad indeed...take care ,WG7D

  • @ivanmollo8495
    @ivanmollo8495 Месяц назад +1

    Gracias por el video, CE1GWX, 73.

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  29 дней назад

      Gracias, 73,WG7D

  • @SteveBrosig-dh3xz
    @SteveBrosig-dh3xz Месяц назад +1

    Yes, I have purchased plenty of ham radio stuff from these folks, 171 Texas, here

  • @henkholdingastate
    @henkholdingastate Месяц назад +1

    Very nice shop

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  Месяц назад

      Sure is

  • @mikeadams9641
    @mikeadams9641 Месяц назад +1

    That use to be a lumber store back in the early 2000 I believe they have been in lima for ever I knew the lumber store like the back of my hand up until they closed there doors then it sat empty for a few years until fair raido bought it

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  Месяц назад +1

      Thanks ! I thought it looked like a lumber yard. Thanks for watching,WG7D

  • @user-fr5fz6vv6z
    @user-fr5fz6vv6z 27 дней назад

    That was a lumberyard back in the day.

  • @johnszczepaniak8679
    @johnszczepaniak8679 Месяц назад +2

    I thought it went out of business a long time ago.

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  Месяц назад

      Very much in business. 😊

  • @Marcospu1mas
    @Marcospu1mas 6 дней назад +1

    boa noite, ok, vao a leilao, muito bom vai ser tudo aproveitado, um abraço, 73.

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  6 дней назад

      Thanks...73,WG7D

  • @Gordonseries385
    @Gordonseries385 Месяц назад +1

    👍

  • @ryanbarker5217
    @ryanbarker5217 Месяц назад +1

    anything you want... if you can find it.

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  Месяц назад

      Yep,it would take some digging 😊

  • @Steven-re7xt
    @Steven-re7xt Месяц назад +1

    PS . Rail mfg...tank mfg...Lima flock. And Ford engine plant. And a host of factory's no doubt Lima's on its way back.

  • @glyn1
    @glyn1 Месяц назад +2

    Would be like a kid in the candy shop But the people that used this stuff are far and few left
    OLD HAMS never die They just smell that way ZL 3--

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  Месяц назад

      😂 Funny...kind of true....😊

  • @henkholdingastate
    @henkholdingastate Месяц назад +1

    The problem is that the yought only interested in games computers and social internet. Result youngsters who dont untherstand as much as the older generation. And they are also less intersted in technical things. What a change overtime. Greetings from the Netherlands

  • @Marcospu1mas
    @Marcospu1mas 7 дней назад +1

    boa noite , saberia mi responder si eles enviam para outro pais ( BRASIL), um abraço.

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  6 дней назад

      they are closing the business...SORRY.

  • @Marcospu1mas
    @Marcospu1mas 6 дней назад +1

    bom dia e todos aqueles equipamentos vam para onde, que tristeza.

    • @WG7D
      @WG7D  6 дней назад

      AUCTIONED OFF IN AUGUST. Thanks for watching! WG7D

  • @72chargerse72
    @72chargerse72 Месяц назад +5

    It is sad to see the surplus market going away, but with cheap chinese crap getting so inexpensive... I wont buy that crap I only buy quality surplus and for the time I have left I expect there will be items. The next generation though...

  • @peterjaniceforan3080
    @peterjaniceforan3080 Месяц назад +1

    😳