Re: Elecraft Digest, Vol 76, Issue 42

[terry burbidge]

Does anyone please have an RS/Farnell/Maplin part no for a replacement K3
front headphone socket?

Cheers,

Terry
G4MKP


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[David Woolley (E.L)]

Terry Burbidge wrote:
>
> Does anyone please have an RS/Farnell/Maplin part no for a replacement K3
> front headphone socket?

Maplin will only have one choice that is even vaguely like it, so
getting the Maplin number for the only candidate should be easy.

Have you asked Elecraft to quote?  They may well come out cheaper when
you consider the small order charges for Farnell and RS.  I imagine they
will send something like that, in a small jiffy bag, using the normal
postal service.

If you have to use a UK source, have you considered Rapid?  They are
more consumer purchase friendly than RS/Farnell, and they have not gone
the way of Maplin of becoming a high street boys' toys merchant.

By the way, you have replied to the digest as a whole, and you have used
a reply to start a new thread.


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[David Cutter]

You might also consider CPC in Preston

David
G3UNA

> Terry Burbidge wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone please have an RS/Farnell/Maplin part no for a replacement K3
>> front headphone socket?
>
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[gm3sek]

David Woolley (E.L) wrote:
>
>If you have to use a UK source, have you considered Rapid?  They are
>more consumer purchase friendly than RS/Farnell, and they have not gone
>the way of Maplin of becoming a high street boys' toys merchant.
>

Further information on a very wide range of UK component and tool
suppliers is available at:
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek/in-prac/components.htm

CPC are also worth a look for this particular item  because they have a
vast range of stock including audio-visual items down to the component
level <www.cpc.co.uk>. They used to be 'trade only' but are now a
mainline consumer outlet advertising on TV, and with much larger stocks
than Maplin.

(CPC's ready-made connecting leads are very good value and are available
with a wide range of connectors at either end. I often buy extra-long
leads at very little extra cost, and cut them in two.)

Farnell have by far the biggest stocks of RF-related parts and are also
very easy to deal with. Amateurs can register for online shopping using
the 'other' options on the drop-down lists, and receive the same good
service as commercial customers
<https://uk.farnell.com/jsp/profile/register.jsp>

Although Farnell and CPC are owned by the same company, they are two
completely different operations, each with its own customer base,
product range and catalogue. The same group also owns Newark in the USA,
and the Farnell catalogue offers a pipeline into the Newark inventory as
well (there is normally a surcharge, but watch out for special offers).

RS, on the other hand, have never been comfortable with private
customers. It still isn't possible for a private individual to register
without being forced to tell lies.



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[Jim Brown-10]

I can't help with identifying distribution channels, but Neutrik, an
excellent connector manufacturer based in Liechtenstein, makes both male and
female cable-mount 1/8-inch connectors of decent quality that can be
purchased through audio distributors in the US. Perhaps there is something
comparable in the UK. If you were in the US, I would send you to a Full
Compass, a vendor in Madison, WI who I buy from via the internet. It's a
family-owned company, and I know the family -- I used to compete with them
many years ago when I sold pro audio to broadcasters. :)

Neutrik and Switchcraft are the major manufacturers of high quality audio
connectors in the world. They also make parts to mount on printed circuit
boards.

See the section on audio in my RFI tutorial for Neutrik part numbers. They're
also near the end of the Power Point pdf on Ham Interfacing.

73, Jim Brown K9YC


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[gm3sek]

Jim Brown wrote:

>I can't help with identifying distribution channels, but Neutrik, an
>excellent connector manufacturer based in Liechtenstein, makes both male and
>female cable-mount 1/8-inch connectors of decent quality that can be
>purchased through audio distributors in the US. Perhaps there is something
>comparable in the UK. If you were in the US, I would send you to a Full
>Compass, a vendor in Madison, WI who I buy from via the internet. It's a
>family-owned company, and I know the family -- I used to compete with them
>many years ago when I sold pro audio to broadcasters. :)
>
>Neutrik and Switchcraft are the major manufacturers of high quality audio
>connectors in the world. They also make parts to mount on printed circuit
>boards.
>
>See the section on audio in my RFI tutorial for Neutrik part numbers. They're
>also near the end of the Power Point pdf on Ham Interfacing.
>

Neutrik and Switchcraft are also highly respected by audio professionals
in Europe. All the UK companies I recommended this morning - CPC,
Farnell and Rapid - sell a wide range of connectors from both companies.


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[David Woolley (E.L)]

Ian White GM3SEK wrote:

> CPC are also worth a look for this particular item  because they have a
> vast range of stock including audio-visual items down to the component
> level <www.cpc.co.uk>. They used to be 'trade only' but are now a
> mainline consumer outlet advertising on TV, and with much larger stocks
> than Maplin.

My own suspicion is that those adverts are targetted at a certain sort
of small business.  They tend to do things like only sell cable by the
drum, which is not particularly friendly to real consumers.

>
> Farnell have by far the biggest stocks of RF-related parts and are also
> very easy to deal with. Amateurs can register for online shopping using
> the 'other' options on the drop-down lists, and receive the same good

I think you still have to lie when you say you agree to the terms and
conditions, as I think they still stress it is a B2B only company.  I
suspect their marketing people welcome others, but their operations
people are afraid of people exercising consumer rights, and I suspect
anyone who did would risk losing their account.

> service as commercial customers
> <https://uk.farnell.com/jsp/profile/register.jsp>

Rapid are also a cable by the drum company, but their main market sector
seems to be schools, so I think they consider hobbyists part of the
educational market.  They did hand out old catalogues at a rally once.
>
> RS, on the other hand, have never been comfortable with private
> customers. It still isn't possible for a private individual to register
> without being forced to tell lies.

Yes.  They've never cottoned on to the idea that today's teenage
hobbyists are tomorrow's electronic design engineers.  At one time, the
used to mark their catalogue as being strictly confidential.  They did,
however, run a consumer catalogue, Doram, I think, for a short time.


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