Re: Local source for coax & connectors?

"Jay R. Ashworth" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.wireless.bay-area
Organization Ashworth & Associates, St Pete FL USA
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 08:44:02PM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Alf Watt wrote:
> > You can try, but last time I was at their store in Oakland, on Tim's 
> > advice, they did not have any 2.5Ghz gear of any kind. Call ahead.
> 
> Most places that I know that work with microwave gear don't do a lot of 
> walk-in business. The popularity of consumer wifi notwithstanding, I don't 
> see that really changing. The consumer in the US is to cost sensitive and 
> these guys make more if not most of their money on consulting and engering 
> which the consumer won't pay for. 
> 
> That leaves online speciality retailers as your best choice for just 
> random rf cables and connectors...

In particular, Pasternack Enterprises (I'm not sure if they have
anything to do with Bill Pasternack, WA6ITF, who fronted Newsline for
years -- is Newsline still in business?) seems to have damned near
everything, though I can't speak to the competitiveness of their prices
and their minimum order might be a problem.

http://www.pasternack.com/

Cheers,
-- jra
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