Bob_61
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I saw some new Lafayette radios on ebay (Gamond "Lafayette" Telsat 805B ).Did someone buy the name?
Any ideas?
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Lafayette resurrected
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Bob_61
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My first CB was a Micro 723, Boy the memories! Do you sell/make this radio:Gamond "Lafayette" Telsat 805B? Or is someone stealing the use of your name?
kb2crk
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i still have a lafayette lm-300. need to find a couple things to restore it...
RadioDaze
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My brother worked at Lafayette in Culver City in the 70's. Great store... much better than RS at that time. Many excellent products.
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My Dad and Brother used to sell them in the 70s when they had the store, I was young then so dont remember a whole lot but just know it was fun to go into the store and see the shop and the radios on display and the tech that worked in the back.and watching do the installations.
That was the good ole days.
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Michael
My Dad and Brother used to sell them in the 70s when they had the store, I was young then so dont remember a whole lot but just know it was fun to go into the store and see the shop and the radios on display and the tech that worked in the back.and watching do the installations.
That was the good ole days.
73s
Michael
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After about ten years of messing around in and out of hamming I decided to get serious in 1962 and bought a Lafayette HA350 HF receiver. Except for Collins, I think it was the only ham receiver at the time that had a PTO instead of a variable capacitor for tuning. It had a great product detector and I used it for several years until I moved up to a Drake TR4 setup. Only thing the 350 lacked was a calibrated bandspread but it still was a great radio, steady as a rock with great audio. Lafayette had a store on Union Square in NYC that was a good place to find most anything you needed, but again, this was 49 years ago and times have sure changed in the retail electronics field, and not for the better, IMHO.
Bob_61
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The post I made 2-12-11 about he Lafayette I saw on Ebay was from a seller in Romania. Thought something was fishy. We had a Lafayette store in West Hartford,CT. That was before RadioShack was in the area, love that store the people there where great! Oh how customer service has changed........
showing my age. yeah things were good back then. even radio shack was a place i could get lost in for awhile. They had such cool stuff. The wife used to hate it -lol. Boy have times changed
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A trademark can last forever, provided you continue to use the mark and comply with renewal requirements. However, if you stop using for three years or more, this may be considered "abandonment" and you may lose the trademark unless you can demonstrate a good reason for the non-use.
Lawrence H. LaFayette owns the Trademark to "Lafayette Radio". The term "Radio" in Lafayette Radio has no claims on it.
Ranger is using the name "Lafayette" and "Telsat". Lafayette is still live, while Telsat is dead to the trademark office.
Pete43
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Larry I still have my first cb, com-phone 23. Still works the last time I tried it.
Bob_61
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Thanks for the info XTS3000!
Hello All: Just a little bit of old time radio here.
Back in the 60's and 70's the Lafayette Comstant 25A and 25B were really great radios, still are. I have a old 25B still working and a few 25A's, that I will get working as they were a great radio.
I have a Lafayette and a General Radiotelephone S-Meters that I have run accross and will put them into a trick small two each 6146 linear amplifier, using a old Maverick 250 Chassie. Just for the memories.
Jay in the Mojave
Back in the 60's and 70's the Lafayette Comstant 25A and 25B were really great radios, still are. I have a old 25B still working and a few 25A's, that I will get working as they were a great radio.
I have a Lafayette and a General Radiotelephone S-Meters that I have run accross and will put them into a trick small two each 6146 linear amplifier, using a old Maverick 250 Chassie. Just for the memories.
Jay in the Mojave
If you subscribed to S9 Magazine in the late 60's, you never made it past page 3 without seeing a two full page ad for Lafayette radio.
Sometimes it would start out with a ad for a HB 525, while other times they went straight to the Comstat 25 and the HE20T or the HB555...
All very fine radios - back in the day.
I believe that there is still a old Lafayette walkie talkie up at my dads house some place.
Possibly a HE 410
One of the wires fell off inside one day and I soldered it in the wrong place and it has not worked since.
Sometimes it would start out with a ad for a HB 525, while other times they went straight to the Comstat 25 and the HE20T or the HB555...
All very fine radios - back in the day.
I believe that there is still a old Lafayette walkie talkie up at my dads house some place.
Possibly a HE 410
One of the wires fell off inside one day and I soldered it in the wrong place and it has not worked since.
TheSpaceMan
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Once in a while you can find things online that are "new in the box", even though they have been sitting in storage for years! I bought some Radio Shack stuff online that was "new" and unopened, even though it had been discontinued by Radio Shack for quite a long time.
TheSpaceMan
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You can find a bunch of old S9 Magazines along with their original Lafayette Radio ads online at: CBradiomagazine.com
Bob_61
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Thanks for the website,more memories!! Turner Signal Kicker!
Thanks for the website,more memories!! Turner Signal Kicker!
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