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To: "'K8RI on Tower talk'" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>,"'Hector Garcia XE2K'" <j_hector_garcia@sbcglobal.net>,"'Mike Bragassa, K5UO'" <bragassa@consolidated.net>,<towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fw: CATV Hardline: connectors?
From: "J.Gordon Beattie, Jr., W2TTT" <vze1u2wn@verizon.net>
Reply-to: w2ttt@arrl.net
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 01:41:12 -0500
List-post: <mailto:towertalk@contesting.com>
Roger,
Do you have a picture?
I'm not sure what you mean by a 1/2 compression fitting.
Perhaps you can clarify?
73 esTNX!
Gordon Beattie, W2TTT
201.314.6964 

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Sent: Sunday, 19 February, 2006 01:22
To: Hector Garcia XE2K; Mike Bragassa, K5UO; towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fw: CATV Hardline: connectors?




> Mike:
> that 1/2 inch 75 ohms cable  is very easy to put
> connectors
>
> cut the cable , remove 1 inch of jacket,  use a dremel
> or any other tool that can remove the foam insulator
> around 3/4 inch deep  don't cute or damage the center

I treat it just like installing a pl-259, but add a 1/2 compression 
coupling. Clamp the coax in one end and the pl259 in the other. Leave enough

center conductor sticking out to allow soldering to the center pin of the 
pl-259.  As far as stripping back the foam you have lots of leeway.

I've used that method here with no problems and you don't have the trouble 
of cleaning out the foam inside the jacket.

Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member)
N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2
www.rogerhalstead.com


> , is aluminun copper cladd  use an UHF barrel  that
> fit in the center conductor , in this steep , you can
> desansembly this one and solder the center of the
> barrel to the center conductor in the coax or  just
> put in under presure , later use a clamp to leave firm
> the barrel in the soft aluminum of the coax.
>
> there in the google you can find several ways to do it
> , also a copper plumbing option and other similar that
> works, the one i try to explain is very easy and you
> don't need a university degree to do it
>
> good luck
>
> --- "Mike Bragassa, K5UO" <bragassa@consolidated.net>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Subject: CATV Hardline: connectors?
>>
>>
>> I was able to pickup 350 feet of "TFC-T10-500JB"
>> CATV coax for a run to a
>>  80m vertical I am building.. I see I.C.E. has
>> transformers for 75-50 Ohm
>>  conversion. Good. Delivery??
>>
>>  Question: How can I fit PL-259's to this cable?
>> Where may I locate come
>>  papers on this subject?
>>
>>  The cable is TFC - T10-500JB
>>
>>  T10 = type of cable (semi flex) - well, that
>> depends)
>>  500 = 1/2" diameter
>>  J = jacketed (black rubber around the aluminum)
>>  B = suitable for direct burial
>>
>>  Thanks for any suggestions, data sources, etc..
>>
>>  Mike Bragassa, K5UO
>> >
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