RG-62/u Cable and Cap Sources

[charles w. morehouse]

Steve,
Yes Newark is a mess. Have bought a bunch from Mouser. Ship same day,
no minimum, and they are fast. Usually get the order within 3 days.
Used to buy from TechAmerica but they are now garbage since becoming
radioshack.com. They also charge sales tax in every state. Mouser does
not. Luck and 73.
Wayne;
W4GBW

Steve Harrison wrote:
>
> At 12:14 PM 1999-12-15 -0500, Bob Carner wrote:
> >        I'm surprised that no one out there deals with Newark Electronics.
>
> I have, both personally and at work.
>
> > They stock an incredible amount of stuff.
>
> That's true. They even have high-voltage feedthrough caps like the ones in
> all the final cages of Heaths :o)))))
>
> >They're a little higher priced, but at least they have what you need.
>
> Actually, for some items, they're a bit CHEAPER than DigiKey or Mouser. But
> for general run-of-the-mill things, they're usually higher than anybody
> else, even my local store. And no, they do NOT always have what's in the
> catalog. It wasn't unusual for us to hear that delivery wouldn't be for a
> month or 6 weeks; that CAN'T be "off the shelf". They have also made
> serious mistakes such as assigning their own part numbers to several items.
> For example:
>
> We used to buy the Power One MAP-4000 switching power supply by the gross;
> nobody else had it in stock for immediate shipment. But we'd have to make
> certain that our own Purchase Agent actually described the item by the
> Power One part number because Newark also assigned their own part number
> for the MAP-4000, whatever it was, to a very expensive GE high-current
> contactor. Three different times over two years, we received a gross of the
> contactors instead of the power supplies. The first two times, Newark's
> billing department didn't catch the problem even after we'd finally
> received the correct power supplies several weeks later, and we continued
> to get bills for the already-returned contactors for several weeks AFTER
> the bills for the correct power supplies; the contactors were several
> hundred bux more than the supplies so it was a big deal to our accounting
> girl. An unusual situation; but I did run across still another part whose
> Newark P/N was doubly-assigned, too.
>
> >Their catalog prices NEVER match what the price is when you call! But
> their catalog is >just under 1500 pages!
>
> I don't remember ever paying anything EXCEPT the catalog price, unless they
> increased the price due to supplier price increases.
>
> Recently, on a Monday morning, I ordered a Weller soldering iron heating
> element. They said it was in stock and would ship via UPS Ground COD, I
> should have it by Thursday. Come Thursday.. zilch. Friday: zilch. Monday..
> Tuesday.. Wednesday... finally I call them again on Thursday when I receive
> a letter thanking me for my first personal order to Newark; they'd
> obviously logged the order instead of round-filing it as I feared. "Oh yes,
> here's your order right here. Yes, it will ship tomorrow from our warehouse
> in Raleigh, North Carolina. Thank you for calling Newark!".
>
> Goes by the rest of that week. Then Monday: zilch. Tuesday...sameo.
> Wednesday, I'm getting a little peeved. "Oh yes, there was a hangup at the
> warehouse; it will ship today, you should have it by Friday. Thank you for
> ordering from Newark!". Huh, have it by the day after tomorrow, UPS Ground,
> even from Raleigh to Massachusetts? I should have caught that, I suppose.
>
> Friday, there's UPS at the door. With my soldering iron element. SHIPPED
> NEXT-DAY-AIR. AT MY EXPENSE, despite their previous assurances of
> UPS-Ground-COD. Gritting my teeth and knowing that I can't do ANYTHING
> without that dang heating element, I pay the shipping charge which was
> $27.88; the iron element was only $26.63 including tax.
> Grindteethgrindteethgrindteeth.
>
> For about $70, I could have bought a whole new iron handle replacement from
> virtually anywhere. It'll be a cold day in Panama before I order from
> Newark again unless nobody else has it.
>
> I don't like Newark; but sometimes, they're the only game in town.
>
> Check out their web site for closeouts, too; some inneresting things there
> from time to time although not much of a discount.
>
> 73, Steve K0XP
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