On the Cover – February 2023

All in the family… 52 years ago, a California Highway Patrolman named Bob Ferrero — known on the ham bands as K6AHV (later W6RJ; SK 2015) — started a business with his wife, Mae, in Burlingame, California that they named Ham Radio Outlet. Today, three generations of the Ferrero family work for the company, which has grown to 13 locations and lays claim to the title of the world’s largest ham radio dealer. Bob’s son Robert, W6KR — pictured on our cover at the company’s Plano, Texas, location — is currently HRO’s president. Family matriarch Mae still works in the main office in Walnut Creek, California; Robert’s sister Kelly, K6KLF, works at the Sacramento location and his son, Rob — who now holds his grandfather’s former call of W6RJ —…

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CQ Amateur Radio (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2023

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