Walmart, Harbor Freight, Home Depot, Dollar Tree, Dollar General,
eBay, Sears, auto industry, steel industry, wallboard, etc.
I built a page for my own reference, but posted it for others,
to consolidate Made in USA & friends of freedom sources but it's
hard to keep it current & complete.
http://nevils-station.com/of.html
Quality control from those sources tends to be better as their
prices are higher & their customer base smaller.
The second-dip recession & massive new insurance costs and regs
since 2007 has caused many to fail, some to sell-out, & others
to merge to survive.
We live on 5 acres in the country so we mostly only have ourselves,
lightning arrestors on power poles, & one neighbor's workshop
(400+ feet from our house & antennas) to blame for local RFI.
Cheap, Asian imports will be the death knell to any North American
standards---if they haven't already proven to be so. In our obsession
with "cheap" we've forgotten that quality is a unique, desirable,
ESSENTIAL thing to have, too...
Not like what Lenin once said, i.e. "Quantity has a quality all its
own."
Go tell that the those who would "WalMart" America & Canada,
though...
~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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