[Amps] Conversion Nightmare

[Harold B. Mandel]

You are entirely correct.

While doing this exercise on cellular tower tops it was necessary to 
hand-trim the heliax "just so," because right after, the Wiltron Sweep
Tester
would be applied, and any glitch would mean starting all over again.

A typical cell tower had three sectors and three jumpers at the top, 
sometimes more when Diversity channels were in place.

Hal/W4HBM
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 11:19:08 +0100 Ian White G/GM3SEK
<gm3sek at ifwtech.co.uk> writes:
> Peter Chadwick wrote:
> 
> For a real nightmare thread, try the one on the older Andrew 
> connectors 
> for LDF-5 Heliax. The inner conductor of that cable is hollow, and 
> the 
> center pin was screwed in using a self-tapping thread that had both 
> a 
> conical taper and a self-tightening variable pitch.
> 
> But their cable splice connector was even worse. To be able to screw 
> the 
> two center conductors together without having to twist the whole 
> length 
> of cable, it needed a copper slug with the above-mentioned thread on 
> one 
> end, and a left-handed version on the other!