Hello Ron:
There are 100's of PL-259's here at K3LR soldered that way - and they work
perfect. No failures in over 40 years of doing this method shown to me by N4AR.
Best of all the dielectric never melts when soldering the shield.
I have seen other stations where guys try to solder through the body holes with
terrible results. If you can do it - that is great.
73
Tim K3LR
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From: Amps [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ron W4BIN Youvan
Sent: Friday, April 9, 2021 11:19 AM
To: amps@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] Alpha 87A Won't Transmit
Robert W5AJ wrote:
> about decade ago, read about method used at K3LR
> started doing it LR way
> Works!
> http://www.k3lr.com/engineering/pl259/
This method is the wrong method. As recommend by the ARRL and others,
It is best to not fan out the shield, but cut it about ¼" past the
jacket and tin
the shield into copper tube, then screw the connector on to the cable,
threaded
onto the jacket and solder through the FOUR holes from the connector to the
tinned shield. A pencil tip flame propane torch can be used, if very
careful use
is involved.
When I began as a broadcast engineer in 1963 every video cable had a
PL259 on each end of sections of RG-11/U and dependability was job #1.
75Ω
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Ron W4BIN - Understanding is much better than
knowing how.
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