{"id":17512,"date":"2016-02-28T08:49:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T12:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=17512"},"modified":"2016-02-28T11:23:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T15:23:35","slug":"rip-dick-smith-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/rip-dick-smith-electronics\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Dick Smith Electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dick-smith\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> reader,\u00a0Dan (VR2HF), who writes:<\/p>\n

I must be a radio geek. While listening to Radio New Zealand (RNZ) top-of-the-hour news with my CC Skywave on the 31mb in a bus from Incheon Airport to my hotel south of downtown Seoul, I learned that Dick Smith Electronics (https:\/\/www.dicksmith.com.au\/<\/a>) will close all of its stores in Australia and New Zealand with the loss of about 3000 jobs. The complicated, sad saga of DSE which was sold by Dick many years ago, can be found here: http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/business\/retail\/dick-smith-to-close-all-stores-3000-staff-to-go-20160225-gn3ios.html<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

My first encounter with DSE was in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early eighties. I remember buying a few kits from them and Nolan Bushnell’s “Petster” robot cat. They also sold some Bearcat Scanners and Yaesu ham gear, as I recall. It is a far different business today than it was back then. If memory serves, I believe Dick Smith also had a store here in Hong Kong around 1980 when I made my first visit to the SAR.<\/em><\/p>\n

I hope that someone in the Maker community with money and a vision will try a new, modern version of Radio Shack and the old version of Dick Smith Electronics. Offering a mix of 3D printers, Arduinos, Raspberry Pies, radios, and other items Makers might want could be a profitable business and fill a need.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post reader,\u00a0Dan (VR2HF), who writes: I must be a radio geek. While listening to Radio New Zealand (RNZ) top-of-the-hour news with my CC Skywave on the 31mb in a bus from Incheon Airport to my hotel south of downtown Seoul, I learned that Dick Smith Electronics (https:\/\/www.dicksmith.com.au\/) will close all of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3,714],"tags":[2303,2304,4794,4792,4793,4795,380],"class_list":["post-17512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news","category-retailers","tag-c-crane-cc-skywave","tag-cc-skywave","tag-dan-vr2hf","tag-dick-smith","tag-dick-smith-australia","tag-dick-smith-electronics","tag-radioshack"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4ys","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51467,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/radio-waves-the-barbed-wire-comms-line-fcc-denies-am-appeal-raspberry-pi-radio-astronomy-and-interview-with-dick-smith\/","url_meta":{"origin":17512,"position":0},"title":"Radio Waves: The Barbed Wire Comms Line, FCC Denies AM Appeal, Raspberry Pi Radio Astronomy, and Interview with Dick Smith","author":"Thomas","date":"January 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Radio Waves:\u00a0 Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio Because I keep my ear to the waves, as well as receive many tips from others who do the same, I find myself privy to radio-related stories that might interest\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0readers.\u00a0 To that end:\u00a0Welcome to the\u00a0SWLing Post\u2019s Radio Waves, a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Books"","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/books\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Mount-Pisgah-Tower-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Mount-Pisgah-Tower-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Mount-Pisgah-Tower-1.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Mount-Pisgah-Tower-1.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":27441,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/breaking-the-cc-skywave-ssb-is-c-crane-developing-a-holy-grail-travel-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":17512,"position":1},"title":"The CC Skywave SSB: Is C.Crane developing a Holy Grail travel radio?","author":"Thomas","date":"August 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Earlier today, intrepid SWLing Post contributor, Cap Tux, spotted an interesting link on Google when he searched for \"C.Crane Skywave SSB\": Turns out, it's a product sheet for a new C.Crane radio: the CC Skywave SSB. 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