I'm lucky: I live in northern VA about 10 miles from ydi (www.ydi.com) they do 99% of their business through a loading dock but will accomodate walk in customers. they look at you a little funny when you pay cash and usually have to take up a collection if you need change, but they always act happy about it and treat you like as good of a customer as any of their NWS contracts or anyone else they never see but sell millions to. they'll make any size shape or flavor cable you need and I doubt they have a minimum. their prices are fine considering noone really gives away custom cables and theirs are great quality! Their staff is smart and pretty willing to give a little free advice when you need it. More than once I've had questions answered by Michael Young who can pretty much make any link work properly. (he's the Y in YDI) If he can't make it work it's most likely illegal, impossible or both. I know they have a location here in northern VA, but I thought they had an office out west. good luck!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 10:44 AM Subject: Re: [BAWUG] Local source for coax & connectors? > 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 > -- > Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 > The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think > Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 > > "They had engineers in my day, too." -- Perry Vance Nelson > _______________________________________________ > BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list > [unsubscribe] http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless _______________________________________________ BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list [unsubscribe] http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
