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1. [TowerTalk] Splicing LDF4 (score: 1): Author: Steve London <n2icarrl@gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:21:48 -0600; Anyone have some good tricks for splicing Andrew LDF4 1/2" Heliax ? This would be for HF use, only - not worried about a small impedance bump. 73, Steve, N2IC ________________________________________; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-08/msg00546.html (7,062 bytes)
2. Re: [TowerTalk] Splicing LDF4 (score: 1): Author: Robert Morris <robrk@nidhog.net>; Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:56:02 -0400; The hard way: A friend used "big enough" brass rod, 1 1/2" long, milled or drilled a hole, in the ends, to fit the center conductor. Tin and solder to splice the center conductors. Copper pipe, big e; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-08/msg00547.html (7,634 bytes)
3. Re: [TowerTalk] Splicing LDF4 (score: 1): Author: "Rob Atkinson" <ranchorobbo@gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:37:00 -0500; Those aren't hard or easy ways; they are wrong ways, especially if the splice is outside where you will eventually have problems due to condensation and possible water penetration. The dielectric is; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-08/msg00549.html (8,093 bytes)
4. Re: [TowerTalk] Splicing LDF4 (score: 1): Author: "Ed Richardson" <ed_richardson@shaw.ca>; Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:05:28 -0500; I think the best way to splice the cable length would be to use an Andrew Male N on one end and a female N on the other. Provides a great solid connection that can be undone if required. Connectors c; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-08/msg00551.html (7,348 bytes)
5. Re: [TowerTalk] Splicing LDF4 (score: 1): Author: David Gilbert <xdavid@cis-broadband.com>; Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:24:40 -0700; Steve, I've played around quite a bit with ways to make inexpensive connectors for 1/2 inch Heliax, and here is my suggestion for a splice. The inner conductor of 1/2 Heliax is 0.190 inch in diameter; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-08/msg00556.html (10,674 bytes)
6. Re: [TowerTalk] Splicing LDF4 (score: 1): Author: "Peter Voelpel" <df3kv@t-online.de>; Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:31:08 +0200; You will get proper splices for that type of cable, at least made by Spinner 73 Peter Anyone have some good tricks for splicing Andrew LDF4 1/2" Heliax ? This would be for HF use, only - not worried; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-08/msg00572.html (7,984 bytes)
7. Re: [TowerTalk] Splicing LDF4 (score: 1): Author: "Dubovsky, George" <George.Dubovsky@andrew.com>; Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:21:14 -0400; Steve, I've spliced a *lot* of 1/4" superflex using one technique, and it should work for 1/2" heliax. Go to the hobby shop and get a short length of brass tubing that just fits over the center condu; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-08/msg00573.html (10,021 bytes)
8. Re: [TowerTalk] Splicing LDF4 (score: 1): Author: "larryjspammenot@teleport.com" <larryj@teleport.com>; Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:14:56 -0700 (GMT-07:00); I kept wondering why this wasn't suggested in the first place - I see it done at commercial 2-way radio tower sites all the time. Proper weatherproofing/waterproofing of the mating connectors being d; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-08/msg00578.html (9,550 bytes)
9. Re: [TowerTalk] Splicing LDF4 (score: 1): Author: "Dubovsky, George" <George.Dubovsky@andrew.com>; Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:28:33 -0400; If money is no object, connectors or in-line splices are a good solution. Above HF, perhaps the only "good" solution. In my case, I had a bunch of 50-60 foot lengths of 1/4" superflex, and I needed t; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-08/msg00579.html (11,108 bytes)
10. Re: [TowerTalk] Splicing LDF4 (score: 1): Author: "larryjspammenot@teleport.com" <larryj@teleport.com>; Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:14:33 -0700 (GMT-07:00); I wondered if it was the money or just why else the Andrew, etc. connectors weren't used for making a splice. I have yet to go to a ham swap meet in the last 10 years or so (including Dayton) where I; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-08/msg00580.html (13,193 bytes)
11. Re: [TowerTalk] Splicing LDF4 (score: 1): Author: "D. Calder" <towertalk@n4zkf.com>; Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:16:54 -0400; In the cell industry there is two splices on every run. Usually 1/2" jumper from the cabinet to the ground buss polyphasers where it then transitions to 1 5/8". It then goes up the tower to another 5; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-08/msg00582.html (14,345 bytes)
12. Re: [TowerTalk] Splicing LDF4 (score: 1): Author: "Dubovsky, George" <George.Dubovsky@andrew.com>; Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:54:21 -0400; Yeah, yeah, yeah... It will not be correct, but it works just fine at HF, thank you. 73, geo - n4ua In the cell industry there is two splices on every run. Usually 1/2" jumper from the cabinet to the; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-08/msg00584.html (9,374 bytes)
13. Re: [TowerTalk] Splicing LDF4 (score: 1): Author: "D. Calder" <towertalk@n4zkf.com>; Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:58:29 -0400; I bet it's real pretty too. LOL! You can twist RG58 center conductor and shield together and put a wire nut on them too and it will work. Doesn't mean I would want to do it. Dave n4zkf Yeah, yeah, ye; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-08/msg00585.html (9,974 bytes)
14. Re: [TowerTalk] Splicing LDF4 (score: 1): Author: Steve Maki <steve@oakcom.com>; Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:10:43 -0400; Not a fair argument... As someone who installs "proper" connectors professionally, I would have no problems with a splice for HF done as described. In fact, in some ways (mechanically) it's probably; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-08/msg00593.html (11,351 bytes)
15. Re: [TowerTalk] Splicing LDF4 (score: 1): Author: "David" <KC0LL@Hotmail.com>; Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:36:06 -0700; "N" is good, but a better way is to use 7/16 DIN connectors. They are a lot stronger than "N" for a splice, especially for 7/8s were "N" will snap off.. I get a lot of them on EBay for 99 cents! I us; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-08/msg00600.html (11,154 bytes)
16. Re: [TowerTalk] Splicing LDF4 (score: 1): Author: "D. Calder" <towertalk@n4zkf.com>; Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:36:08 -0400; I'll take a din any day also and been in the telecom business about 13 yrs now and will never splice it if I don't have to. Not my cup of tea. I have for an emergency a few hundred feet up but it was; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-08/msg00606.html (12,084 bytes)
17. Re: [TowerTalk] Splicing LDF4 (score: 1): Author: "Rob Atkinson" <ranchorobbo@gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:14:23 -0500; It's because some hams get a kick out of trying to save a few bucks, even if it costs more time and money in the long run than doing it right would have from the beginning. But anyway, a makeshift sp; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-08/msg00609.html (9,463 bytes)
18. Re: [TowerTalk] Splicing LDF4 (score: 1): Author: Steve Maki <steve@oakcom.com>; Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:02:44 -0400; Rob, The fallacy in this argument is the implication that it's difficult or even impossible to weatherproof the outside of a splice. Nothing could be further from the truth, is spite of some failed "; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-08/msg00646.html (10,742 bytes)
19. Re: [TowerTalk] Splicing LDF4 (score: 1): Author: Ian White GM3SEK <gm3sek@ifwtech.co.uk>; Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:00:09 +0100; Agreed. 10-15 years ago, when Heliax connectors were rare and expensive, I spliced two lengths of LDF4-50 using the brass/copper tubing method. This was waterproofed with self-amalgamating tape, and; /archives//html/Towertalk/2008-08/msg00648.html (9,659 bytes)

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