Amateur Electronic Supply Closing after 59 Years in Business

[Wrightwood]

[ezzpete]

Before the internet came along, I spent many nights fondling the AES catalog. In the 80s & 90s I was addicted to radio communications. I used to buy and sell at the electronics swap meets in the IE and at Cal Poly. There were rows of guys selling new and used gear, lots of fun. The only local electronics swap meet I know of now is in Chino Hills at the high school. It's mostly computer related stuff with a few radios, but not enough to make the drive worth while. It's not hard to figure out why AES is going out of business.

Which reminds me, I need to renew my HAM ticket this month. It will be my 20 year anniversary, most of it spent inactive.

[spellbinder]

here is a link to the eham article

http://www.eham.net/articles/37106

sorry to see them go...right around the corner from the shooting range...
Guns and Radios!!

[Wrightwood]

Here's another Eham topic

http://www.eham.net/ehamforum/smf/index.php/topic,110116.0.html

[Cheapskate]

Not sure about their "online" profile..but I suspect that Electronics Warehouse on Main St. in Riverside would be a pretty sweet replacement.

[spellbinder]

check out http://www.electronicswarehouse.net/

[Wrightwood]

Ham Radio Outlet to Acquire Some AES Employees, Re-Open Milwaukee Location as HRO Branch

Ham Radio Outlet (HRO) has announced plans to hire an unspecified number of Amateur Electronic Supply (AES) employees when AES shuts down its four locations in late July. In addition, the current AES Headquarters store in Milwaukee will become HRO's newest location later this summer, following renovation. On July 1, AES announced that it was going out of business and ending retail operations at its Milwaukee, Las Vegas, Cleveland, and Orlando locations. With the approval of AES management, HRO senior managers visited each AES location to interview staffers in hopes of "acquiring some of the Amateur Radio retail employee talent in each of the current AES locations," an HRO news release said.

"Together with this interview process, HRO examined what it would take to perhaps acquire one or more of the AES store locations. At the time of these interviews, many opportunities were explored with current AES senior management," the release continued. "We are very excited to announce that HRO was successful in providing offers of employment to a number of soon-to-be-former AES employees, and that to some, we have offered positions that involve HRO-sponsored and funded relocation."

HRO announced that once AES shutters its Milwaukee location at 5710 W Good Hope Road on July 28, Ham Radio Outlet will undertake an extensive remodeling project to create a new HRO Milwaukee store at the same site, which will open at the end of August.

"It is with great pleasure that we are able to continue Terry Sterman's and Phil Majerus' legacy of providing a fantastic Amateur Radio store in Milwaukee, Wisconsin," said HRO President Robert Ferrero, W6KR. "It is our immediate goal to have the largest, most well-stocked Amateur Radio retail store in North America and perhaps even the world."

After AES closes on July 28, all former AES locations' direct and toll-free telephone numbers will be redirected to the closest HRO location, and the AES website will be directed to HRO's website.

A family-owned business, HRO is the world's largest Amateur Radio dealership, with locations from New England to the West Coast.

http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter?issue=2016-07-14#toc03