Beltronics end ham radio repairs

The Nashua Telegraph reports that Beltronics are ending ham radio repairs because of too much demand.

“It became overwhelming,” said Dorothy Peabody, who owns Beltronics on Proctor Hill Road, Hollis, NH with her husband, Bernie.

Until last month, the company had two employees who did part-time repair work on amateur, or ham, radios. When one of those employees retired, Peabody said, the decision was made to get out of that business because there were more requests for repairs than the one remaining worker could handle.

The desire for repair work is so great, Peabody said, that over the past decade Beltronics has repaired radios mailed from as far away as Saudi Arabia, Puerto Rico and South America. “We’ve had people drive here from New York state and bring their radios,” she said.

The company is concentrating on its main business, commercial radios, municipalities, ambulance etc.

Read the full Nashua Telegraph story dated Friday, May 14 at http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/
738077-196/beltronics-ending-ham-radio-repairs.html