>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 3:12 PM Bill Mills1 <millsend@windstream.net
> <mailto:millsend@windstream.net>> wrote:
> Pete,
>
> From many years of experience as a career U.S. Army Signal Corps Officer and
> amateur radio operator, I have used and soldered a large number of USA made
> PL-259 coaxial connectors. The USA is now flooded with poor copies of PL-259
> RF coaxial connectors made in China and sold by the Wireman and other hamfest
> sellers. Place a US Military Spec or Amphenol PL-259 coaxial connector side
> by side a Chinese copy and see the difference.
>
> What makes me angry is the answers you receive from the Wireman and other
> hamfest sellers will give you when you ask them where their knock off PL-259
> is manufactured. The China PL-259 copies are inferior quality. In 2017 I
> attended the Dayton Hamconvention and found a seller of Amphenol PL-259
> coaxial connectors in bulk quantities. I purchased 100 each Amphenol PL-259
> for $100.00. Like others have mentioned, I purchase only Amphenol and US
> Military Spec PL-259 coaxial connectors marked with the manufacture name.
> Over the years, I have found great buys on USA made PL-259 connectors at the
> hamfests. DX Engineering currently sells a four pack of Amphenol PL-259
> connectors for RG-213 cable for $22.99.
>
> I do not use solderless crimp on PL-259 connectors. PL-259 connectors were
> designed to be soldered!
>
> 73,
> Bill
> KC4AA
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