Well while adding to my check-it-out in my spare time sites.....
www.jabdog.co.uk came up empty. Any of the letters in error?
I wouldn't have a guess as to a search for your site listed
Thanks K4TWO Gary
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Apologies . Web site is : www.jabdog.com I have checked site : It
is there !
e-mail address :
Advertises in SPRAT ,Journal of the G-QRP Club.
I have purchased components a few times ; very good with assorted coil packs
incl Toko
Also Micrometals & Fairite Iron Dust and Ferrite cores for RF
Variable caps and a good range of semi-conductors
Reasonable if not low prices.
Focus on homebrew community.

Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH

Um, I really did need to talk with someone familiar with US Customs for
importing as well as exporting. Could you reply to me by email?

Thanks,

The Eternal Squire

I wouldn't be going into this simply for sentimental
reasons but hopefully to make a small profit to
supplement my wife's earnings

You might want to emphasize "small" in profit. It's unlikely you'll
make much more money at this then you would at a minimum-wage job. Of
course, you might not like any minimum-wage jobs so you're left with
pursuing your hobby and making a few bucks at it too, and that's not
bad at all.

If your wife were a specialist doctor to Hollywood stars or a high-paid
lawyer then sure, knock yourself out with a home-based business. But
she's not gonna be making a lot of money by teaching at a reservation.

I do not see very many days left in my 20 odd-year career
as a software designer

Don't knock selling what you already know, there are ways to contract
out programming services from anywhere in the world quite easily.

So, what is the perfect homebrewer store for you all?

I'd say to go for whatever you enjoy the most. If you aren't
sure what you like, dip your feet in several pools and see what sells.
Others here lament the "good old days" of homebrewing, but as far as I
am concerned we're in it right now. Components from 70 years ago till
yesterday are on E-bay all the time, and modern parts are available
over the web in small quantities quite easily. Anyone is free to mix
and match industrial with consumer with military with ham technologies
as they choose - and this is exactly what homebrewers were doing 30,
50, 70 years ago as well, except now we have access to so much more of
all of it!

Tim.

Tim,

I appreciate the encouragement. It really isn't about the money tho.

The way things are turning out, I am going to be reversing roles with
my wife for at least the next few years. I'm actually looking foward
to doing this for several reasons:

1) Caring for my baby girl (22 mo) and possibly one other being planned
for is going to allow me to lay down the foundation of my children
being a lot closer to me by the time they become teenagers.

2) Up where we are going, there is fairly little light pollution. Last
time I actually had a chance to see the entire Milky Way was in my
mid-20's.

3) I'm essentially an ABD in Computer Science with about 20 broken
years experience working from drivers from GUIs to everything
inbetween, in 5 languages and 10 platforms, and I'm only 43. There
isn't a whole lot I haven't done for either small companies, large
ones, or on contract, so it is all starting to become the same....

4) What I'd really like to do is create Open Source tools at a much
higher level of quality than I have seen by a lot of sometime authors.
I have plenty of ideas and now at least some time every day to think
great thoughts that won't be owned by an employer.

5) I got into hardware and software primarly as an escape from an
abusive family growing up. After being on antidepressants for 10
years, shrunk to a fare-thee-well, and having a terrific wife and a
wonderful girl for my family, my family has become my escape from my
work rather than then other way around. This is a good thing, but it
is no wonder that I am tired of working for a wage.

6) I am looking forward to doing a lot of homebrewing and a little DX
where I don't have to worry about how my antenna looks to the
neighbors.

So I really don't know what I want to do. I am learning that being a
full time homemaker won't be all scones and cream but that the some
time I'll have to be creative will be more than than I had been having
in a cube.

Problem is, I don't know just where to start.

The Eternal Squire

4) What I'd really like to do is create Open Source tools at a much
higher level of quality than I have seen by a lot of sometime authors.
I have plenty of ideas and now at least some time every day to think
great thoughts that won't be owned by an employer.
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That's great . Being a radio amateur you might be in a position to promote
Linux , so that Linux will be increasingly used for amateur radio software.
Perhaps you might do some work for ARRL ,such that in future all Ham Radio
software ARRL are associated with can ALSO be run on a Linux box.
In spite of Linux gaining terrain ,at the moment most Ham Radio software can
only be run on Windoze or DOS .

Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH The future : A penguin with
an HT

Highland Ham wrote:

Surplus people in the USA like 'Surplus of Nebraska ' and 'Peter Dahl' seem
rather expensive.


'Peter Dahl' makes custom transformers, so you can't expect "Cheap"
if you want it to last.

--
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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

old saying,

you gets what you pay for !

http://www.allelectronics.com (surplus stuff, good quality items, low shipping)

ES:

My advice...

a) Start somewhere---with something. It doesn't matter what. Yes there
is much to be said for planning and strategizing. On the other hand, too
many people spend so much time thinking about doing things that they
never actually do them.

b) The "perfect ham store" is the store YOU'd shop at if it existed. If
you want to establish the perfect ham store, then create it according to
your vision.

c) Whatever you do, make is scaleable. Running out plunking down
thousands for shop space, equipment, advertising, and whatever is a
risky proposition. Start with a single kit, a single service, a single
piece of your own software, and market it on the web.

If it fails, your exposure was small and whatever money lost can be
justified as tuition for the lessons you learned. Just try something else.

If it doesn't fail, you will have a small amount of capital with which
to leverage the next product or service.

HPF
AC7ZL

wrote:



Problem is, I don't know just where to start.

The Eternal Squire

Gotta remember - Hams are cheap -- they visit the local store -- try out the
gear - ask a zillion questions, then go away and mail order off the web to
save a measly dollar or two. Then they go back to the local store and ask
them to help program the unit.

I had a Ham offer me $7 for a $25 book, I replied -- which Chapter do you
want (;-)

--
CL -- I doubt, therefore I might be !






"H. P. Friedrichs" wrote in message
...
ES:

My advice...

a) Start somewhere---with something. It doesn't matter what. Yes there is
much to be said for planning and strategizing. On the other hand, too many
people spend so much time thinking about doing things that they never
actually do them.

b) The "perfect ham store" is the store YOU'd shop at if it existed. If
you want to establish the perfect ham store, then create it according to
your vision.

c) Whatever you do, make is scaleable. Running out plunking down thousands
for shop space, equipment, advertising, and whatever is a risky
proposition. Start with a single kit, a single service, a single piece of
your own software, and market it on the web.

If it fails, your exposure was small and whatever money lost can be
justified as tuition for the lessons you learned. Just try something else.

If it doesn't fail, you will have a small amount of capital with which to
leverage the next product or service.

HPF
AC7ZL

wrote:



Problem is, I don't know just where to start.

The Eternal Squire