I always learned to never never use a file on solder.
Best way to catch a " NOT ACCEPTED " report from army inspectors in
production lines.
Guess crimp on solder isn't a good practis either.
Jos on4kj
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[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] De la part de David Gilbert
Envoyé : jeudi 4 janvier 2007 18:58
À : Towertalk@contesting.com
Objet : Re: [TowerTalk] Coax Connectors
My apologies if someone else has recently posted this link, but VE7BZ
has put together a quite excellent tutorial on using crimp connectors,
complete with lots of pictures.
http://www.bcdxc.org/pl259_crimp_on_connectors.htm
Dave AB7E
Dennis OConnor wrote:
> An excellent write up Dick, by a obviously experienced ham...
> Now, having noted that; let me comment that by the time you wait on the
solder gun to get hot enough to tin the braid on the first end I will have
both connectors crimped on and the tools put back away, the coax hooked up
to the gear, and be sitting around heckling you...
> Like many I have resisted crimped connectors in my ham shack for decades
while using them on my airplanes... I finally woke up and smelled the
coffeee (tea in my case)... I bought a good crimper tool, a set of dies,
coax stripper and some connectors... Started redoing the very old,
hodgepodge, cabling on my station in preparation for the new Orion, etc., -
in the old days it would have taken me most of the afternoon to make up the
jumpers, with the crimper setup in less than an hour I had installed 20
connectors, recabled the radios into the new configuration, and was done...
I just ordered another batch of connectors in preparation for a new set of
antenna arrays with remote switching...
> If you do more than 3 PL259's a year you need a crimper...
>
> denny / k8do
>
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