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Re: [TowerTalk] DIN to coax connector?

To: "'towertalk'" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] DIN to coax connector?
From: "David Robbins" <k1ttt@arrl.net>
Reply-to: k1ttt@arrl.net
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2016 21:33:01 +0000
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Adapters to N are available, but a bit on the expensive side for me...
http://www.showmecables.com/Search.aspx?q=7%2f16+din+adapters


David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
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AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://k1ttt.net:7373


-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Chris
Hoelzle
Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2016 21:10
To: 'Steve Maki'; 'towertalk'
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] DIN to coax connector?

I have never used 7/16 DIN connectors. It seems impossible to find an
adapter to go from 7/16 DIN to UHF. As hams, we need to plug into our rigs
and antennas with UHF connectors - How do you jump the gap??

NN6CH
Chris Hoelzle
choelzle@cox.net
Laguna Niguel, CA
-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Steve
Maki
Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2016 8:34 AM
To: towertalk
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] DIN to coax connector?

On 9/2/2016 0:33 AM, Jim Brown wrote:

>> I've been gradually converting to all DINs everywhere that it's 
>> reasonable.

> Why? Are all your systems at UHF?

No. In my business we use nothing but 7-16 DIN nowadays and it does not take
long working with them (like 5 minutes) to realize how superior they are,
even if just mechanically (at HF). And of course I have a good supply on
hand, being in the biz.

So when I ran all new hardline out to the towers a few years ago, it was an
easy decision to switch to DINs on the main lines and on jumpers - at each
end of the hardlines - to the point where I encounter a device with a UHF
connector that is inconvenient to replace, like a wattmeter, balun, etc.

-Steve K8LX



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