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Howard Electronics was started in April of 1946 as a sole proprietorship by my father Mr. Fred Howard and my mother Mrs. Ruby Howard. The main business during those times was repair of five tube radios, irons, toasters, and due to my fathers electrical background, he was able to rewind electric motors. Times we tough back then, but in 1953 television hit Wichita and my father, like all other technicians in the area started learning how to repair television. Our only station at that time was in Oklahoma city, which was 150 miles away. That meant there was a business in long range antenna's and towers. As soon as Wichita received it's first TV station, then it required a rotor on that long range antenna. Soon Wichita had three TV stations well established and the sales and service of television and installation of antennas flourished. In 1963, the Federal Communications Commission established a radio frequency band called the Citizen Band. Use was light back then, but my father was very interested in communications so he started selling, using and repairing CB Radio's. We then became Kansas' Oldest CB Center and that title still stands today. In 1970, I returned to work for my father, for pay this time. The business now had two families to support. It was soon apparent that due to the size of televisions compared to the size of the shop my father built, that we could not turn enough televisions through the small shop to support two families...