{"id":37985,"date":"2019-06-01T06:45:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T10:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=37985"},"modified":"2019-06-01T06:45:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T10:45:14","slug":"mendelsons-preparing-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/mendelsons-preparing-to-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Mendelsons preparing to close?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38019\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons.jpg 504w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Eric McFadden (WD8RIF), who notes that George Thomas (W5JDX) visited the iconic surplus\/parts store <a href=\"https:\/\/meci.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mendelsons<\/a> in Dayton, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>George spoke about his visit on <em>HamNation<\/em> and plans to air his tour and interview with the owner on a future episode. The owner did mention that they plan to close the store possibly within a year. Here&#8217;s the video clip from HamNation:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RP7cvTleVKA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=1631&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RP7cvTleVKA&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=1631\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This would be a true loss for anyone in the Dayton area who enjoys building and making things. Mendelsons is so much more than a radio parts store&#8211;their selection is vast. In fact, that&#8217;s an understatement. <em><strong>It&#8217;s mind-boggling&#8230;gobsmacking!\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I took a few photos inside Mendelsons in 2017 when I visited the store with friends (that&#8217;s WD8RIF in many of the shots!):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38020 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior.jpg 365w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-38021 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-9.jpg 365w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-9-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-38022 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-8.jpg 365w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-8-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-38023 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-7.jpg 365w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-7-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-38024 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-6.jpg 365w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-6-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-38025 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-5-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-5-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-5-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-5-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-5-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-5.jpg 1154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-38026 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-4.jpg 365w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-4-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-38027 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-3-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-3-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-3.jpg 1154w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-38028 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-2.jpg 365w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mendelsons-Interior-2-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As George mentioned in the video, if you haven&#8217;t visited Mendelsons before, you do so soon. And plan to be there for multiple hours&#8211;it&#8217;s quite the pilgrimage!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/meci.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to visit Mendelsons online.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Eric McFadden (WD8RIF), who notes that George Thomas (W5JDX) visited the iconic surplus\/parts store Mendelsons in Dayton, Ohio. George spoke about his visit on HamNation and plans to air his tour and interview with the owner on a future episode. The owner did mention that they plan to close [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,714],"tags":[7798,1150,7797],"class_list":["post-37985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-retailers","tag-hamnation","tag-hamvention","tag-mendelsons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9SF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10407,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/etows-humanalight-featured-on-hamnation\/","url_meta":{"origin":37985,"position":0},"title":"ETOW&#8217;s HumanaLight featured on HamNation","author":"Thomas","date":"August 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I would like to give a hearty\u00a0shout-out to the good folks at HamNation, via Leo Laporte's TWiT network, for so prominently featuring Ears To Our World\u2013and ETOW's\u00a0new HumanaLight kit!\u2013in the latest episode. 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Bob is the mastermind\u00a0behind Heil Sound as well as the host of HamNation, a show devoted to all aspects of amateur radio\u2013\u2013yet this\u00a0job description\u00a0only scratches the surface of Bob's fascinating career. 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(Source: WDTN) TROTWOOD, Ohio (WDTN) \u2013 The iconic venue brought sports, concerts, entertainment and special interest shows to the Miami Valley for 60 years is closing their doors\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ham Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ham Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/ham-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Hara Arena (Source: Aesopposea via WikiMedia Commons)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/HARA-Arena-Cropped.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/HARA-Arena-Cropped.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/HARA-Arena-Cropped.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":20274,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/breaking-2017-dayton-hamvention-to-be-held-at-the-greene-county-fairgrounds\/","url_meta":{"origin":37985,"position":5},"title":"Breaking: 2017 Dayton Hamvention to be held at the Greene County Fairgrounds","author":"Thomas","date":"August 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Scott Gamble (W5BSG), who writes: I just saw this local news post about the venue for Hamvention 2017. 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