Hi Tim,
I’ve been wanting to ask you this question for a while - if you are going to
put PL-259s on RG-213s today, would you use 83-1SP with this method? Or you’ll
use the new DXE Next Generation Crimp/Solder connectors?
Thanks,
Ming N2IW
> On Apr 9, 2021, at 8:22 AM, Tim Duffy <k3lr@k3lr.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> --
> Ron W4BIN - Understanding is much better than
> knowing how.
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