Peter,
I appreciate your thinking. However, some guys don't want (or cant) to
spend $10 on a connector.
To my thinking - there is no such thing as a good or bad connector - there
is just a suitability to the specific task. And in most cases, the cheap
connectors will provide minimal acceptable functionality for the most part -
and if that's all your application requires, they are a fine choice.
Now I don't think I would use a cheap PL259 at the top of a tower, for
example, but on a patch cord in the shack that's not in full time use, it
would probably be fine there.
73/jeff/ac0c
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From: "DF3KV" <df3kv@t-online.de>
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 3:30 PM
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] Chinese DIN connectors
> I would never buy a DIN connector with melting isolation while soldering.
> Probably you bought something like 7/16, but not DIN.
> All DIN connectors are Teflon isolated.
> Try Spinner, Telegärtner, Huber&Suhner, Eupen, RFS or other European
> vendors.
>
> Buy cheap = get cheap (useless)
>
> 73
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of Ryan Foster
> Sent: Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2009 18:47
> To: amps@contesting.com; K1SG@AOL.com
> Subject: Re: [Amps] Chinese DIN connectors
>
> The din connectors I got were pretty cheap, kind of hard to work with-- it
> was really easy to melt them when you are trying to solder wires in. You
> can't really find any good ones out there though, so I would just order a
> few extras in case you melt one or two.
>
> Besides the products being what you probably already expect being Chinese,
> they are a pretty decent company, and I will order from them again. I
> don't
> remember if the dins were xtar, but at the time I got them, the ones I got
> were the only din connectors for whatever pins # I needed (for an ft-897
> and
> ft-857, I can't recall how many pin those are, but they were mini-din. I
> would imagine full size din would be no problem whatsoever.)
>
> --Ryan w8cya
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:41 AM, <K1SG@aol.com> wrote:
>
>> I need to get some 7-16 DIN connectors, and most of what I'm seeing is
>> coming out of China. Does anyone have any experience with XTAR
>> connectors,
>> or
>> with rfsupplier.com in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province China?
>>
>> Steve Gilbert
>> K1SG
>> K1SG@AOL.com
>> FN42fe
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