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Re: [TowerTalk] RG-6

To: "Tower and HF antenna construction topics." <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] RG-6
From: Bill <bmarx@bellsouth.net>
Reply-to: "Tower and HF antenna construction topics." <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:44:16 -0500
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The sale was at Home Depot I forgot to add.
Bill Marx W2CQ



Roger (K8RI) wrote:
> Barrie Smith wrote:
>   
>> I recently purchased 200' of RG-6 from Lowes for a receiving antenna.
>>
>> The braid is real strange stuff.  Looks, act and feels like steel.  I can't 
>> get ordinary, resin-core solder to attach at all.  The solder just beads up 
>> and falls off.
>>   
>>     
> It's really meant for the cheap, crimp connectors, but works well with 
> the compression F connectors (bout 50 cents each but take a relatively 
> pricey insertion tool)  which are more or less water proof or at least 
> resistant. Quality adapters from the good F connectors to UHF connectors 
> are hard to find. All I've seen were of the Radio Shack variety.
>
> 73
>
> Roger (K8RI)
>   
>> Any suggrstions as to how to solder this stuff?
>>
>> 73, Barrie, W7ALW 
>>
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