Digi-Key

picture info	Digi-Key DigiKey Corporation (formerly written as Digi-Key) is an American electronic components distributor. The company was founded in 1972 by Ronald Stordahl. DigiKey is the fourth largest electronic component distributor in North America and the fifth largest electronic component distributor overall. Stordahl privately owns the company. The name "Digi-Key" is a reference to the "Digi-Keyer Kit," a digital electronic keyer kit that Stordahl developed and marketed to amateur radio enthusiasts. Electrical schematics for the electronic keyer were published in April 1968 by the radio publication QST. History After earning a degree in electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota, Ronald Stordahl returned to his hometown of Thief River Falls, Minnesota, where he took up ham radio in the early 1970s. Stordahl created a kit of electronic parts to improve the transmission of Morse code over his radio. He soon began selling kits to other ham operators, and eventually branched of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon]
	Digi-Key Logo DigiKey Corporation (formerly written as Digi-Key) is an American electronic components distributor. The company was founded in 1972 by Ronald Stordahl. DigiKey is the fourth largest electronic component distributor in North America and the fifth largest electronic component distributor overall. Stordahl privately owns the company. The name "Digi-Key" is a reference to the "Digi-Keyer Kit," a digital electronic keyer kit that Stordahl developed and marketed to amateur radio enthusiasts. Electrical schematics for the electronic keyer were published in April 1968 by the radio publication QST. History After earning a degree in electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota, Ronald Stordahl returned to his hometown of Thief River Falls, Minnesota, where he took up ham radio in the early 1970s. Stordahl created a kit of electronic parts to improve the transmission of Morse code over his radio. He soon began selling kits to other ham operators, and eventually branched off in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon]
	Ronald Stordahl Ronald Arthur Stordahl is the founder of electronic component distributor Digi-Key Electronics, located in Thief River Falls, Minnesota. He previously served as chief executive officer but is now member of the board. Early life Ronald was born in Roseau, Minnesota to Arthur Vernon (1909–2011) and Ina (Olson) Stordahl (1922–2020) in 1943. His paternal grandfather, Louis, was an immigrant from Flesberg, Buskerud, Norway. Career Stordahl's interest in ham radio provided the springboard for what became Digi-Key Electronics. While in college he assembled and began selling an electronic keyer kit, called the Digi-Keyer, for sending radiotelegraph code for ham radio operators. After obtaining his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon]
	Thief River Falls Thief River Falls, sometimes abbreviated as TRF, is a city and county seat of Pennington County in the northwest portion of the U.S. state of Minnesota. The population was 8,749 at the 2020 census. History Thief River Falls takes its name from a geographic feature, the falls of the Red Lake River at its confluence with the Thief River. The name of the river is a loose translation of the Ojibwe phrase ''Gimood-akiwi ziibi'', literally, the "Stolen-land river" or "Thieving-land river", which originated when a band of Dakota Indians occupied a secret encampment along the river, hence "stealing" the land, before being discovered and routed by the neighboring Ojibwe. In the Treaty of Old Crossing of 1863, the ''Moose Dung's Indian Reservation'' was established on the west bank of the Thief River, at its confluence with Red Lake River. This Indian Reservation was dissolved in 1904 and their population incorporated as part of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa. Thief River Falls marked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon]
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	Master Electronics Master Electronics (originally Master Distributors) is an American company based in Phoenix, Arizona, that distributes electronic components. The company was founded in 1967 by Ike Nizam. Master is one of the largest electronic component distributors in North America. Master Electronics now has over 300 employees with 12 locations worldwide and a stock of over 350,000 unique parts for shipment and over 3 million for sale. History The company was founded by Syrian immigrant Ike Nizam in 1967 in Santa Barbara, California, reaching $1,000,000 in annual sales by 1971. In 1999, the company created OnlineComponents as part of an e-commerce strategy. In 2007, the company expanded its product scope through the purchase of All American Semiconductor. In 2014, Master Electronics acquired Electro Sonic, growing company holdings. In 2017, Master Electronics celebrates its 50 year anniversary since its founding. In January 2019, the company added Advanced Thermal Solutions, a company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon]