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> From: Lee Buller <k0wa@southwind.net>
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] CATV Hardline connectors
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Date: Tuesday, June 24, 1997 04:46
>
> >Fellow tower talkians,this will be my first attempt at requesting info
> >from Tower Talk.I hope someone can help me.I recently aquired a
> >large amount of CATV hardline.I need to adapt the hardline to standard
> >PL 259 fittings.I have seen articles about this but dont recall
where.Has
> >anyone fabricated any or are there any manufactured that dont cost a
> >bankroll.I will thank you all in advance and look forward to seeing what
> >all the answers to my question might bring me.
> >
> >73 de WT9Q--Bob
>
> Well, I have seen and read about ever scheme there is to make connectors.
I
> like the copper plumbing method the best. Using copper pipe fittings,
one
> can make about anything with a drill, a couple of bits, a file and a lot
of
> copper couplers. But...
>
>
> The most elligant (or maybe I should say crude) method was to just solder
> and clamp pig tails to the cable and have a small amount of regular coax
to
> connect to the antenna or the rig.
>
> I've also seen where guys have just bent the CATV hardline at 90 degress,
> clamped them together...solder a wire across the center connectors and
> placed a two liter plastic bottle over the whole she-bang.
>
> Now all you VHFers and UHFers are going have a lot of comments about
that,
> but does it matter on HF? The guys seem to get out and they really don't
> use a connector at all....
>
>
> Crude, but I dare say it works! We even had to do that on the local VHF
> repeater when lighting blew a hole through one of our quarter wave line
> transformers. We just soldered and clamped on some more coax. The SWR
was
> 1.3 to one and we ran that for three months. Worked fine. I don't thing
> there would be a problem at HF at all. Oh yes....weather proof the hell
out
> of it with coax-seal, tape, plastic, what have you.
>
> Lee
> k0wa@southwind.net
>
>
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Ditto and it works, Good Luck!
Mike, K0TQ
Trustee of above mentioned repeater
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