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Heathkit Educational Systems Closes Shop For Good

Posted by timothy on from the at-least-until-the-next-final-time dept.

scharkalvin writes with this excerpt from the American Radio Relay League's site: "'For the second time since 1992, Heathkit Educational Services (HES) has shuttered its doors. Rumors of the legendary kit-building company's demise were posted on QRZ.com, with several readers bringing the news to the attention of the ARRL. In August 2011, Heathkit announced it was returning to the kit building business, and in September, that it would once again be manufacturing Amateur Radio kits. ... On LinkedIn, a popular networking site, HES Chief Executive Officer Lori Marciniak listed her employment ending at Heathkit as of March 2012. Likewise, Heathkit's Marketing and Sales Director Ernie Wake listed his employment ending in April 2012. An unsubstantiated report on Wikipedia states that "[in] December 2011, Heathkit Educational Systems laid off most employees and in March 2012, the company indefinitely suspended operations."' It looks like Heathkit is gone for good. Their plans on re-entering the kit market died with the current economy."

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  1. Re:Sad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, yes. People liking things you don't like are stooooopid. We know the drill. *snore*

    Modern electronics *is* hard- that's why I get paid the big bucks for it. Most of my designs have thousands of parts interacting with tens of thousands of signals, and that just one board and not counting the firmware and HDL.

    You going to wave solder a 1200 I/O ball grid array FPGA to a 20 layer PCB in your garage?