[Amps] SHV connectors great, but where to find coax?

[Vic K2VCO]

I fully support the right of each individual to do what he wants unless it directly
interferes with others' rights to do similarly.

But I know my limitations and I know that no matter how well I understand my setup and no 
matter how careful I usually am, there will be times (when something goes wrong in the 
middle of a contest, or even when I'm thinking hard about something else) when I will act 
plain stupid. Who among us can say that they never do anything stupid?

So all of my PL259's are for RF.

On 9/13/2010 9:46 AM, DAVE WHITE wrote:
> "The Engineering Council in the UK would I expect strip someone of their CEng status if
> an individual proposed such silly things." But let's face it, the UK is becoming just
> about the most laughable example of the socialist Nanny State taken to the most extreme
> interpretation of the concept.  I doubt if Henry V and Winston Churchill are turning in
> their graves when they see modern Britain, I'm sure that they're spinning like steam
> turbines. This is the country where the Elf'n'Safety nazis (including rooms full of
> overpaid, interfering, sanctimonious buffoons like the Engineering Council) invade
> every aspect of our lives.  I say Bollocks to the lot of them.  If I want to build an
> HT lead with a PL259 on the end of it, then that's what I'll damn well do and I
> personally will take the risk.  If I plug one end into the 6kV supply and the other
> into my right nostril then that's my own fault and my own responsibility, right? Dave
> G0OIL (not SK, amazingly)
>
>
>
> --- On Mon, 13/9/10, Dr. David Kirkby<david.kirkby at onetel.net>  wrote:
>
> From: Dr. David Kirkby<david.kirkby at onetel.net> Subject: Re: [Amps] SHV connectors
> great, but where to find coax? To: "'AMPS'"<amps at contesting.com> Date: Monday, 13
> September, 2010, 13:45
>
> On 09/13/10 07:18 AM, Roger wrote:
>
>> What we do have to remember though is we may not always be around.  Some one other
>> than us may end up moving things.
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Roger (K8RI)
>
> Exactly.
>
> I assume none of the people proposing using PL-259 plugs for HV are chartered
> engineers. The Engineering Council in the UK would I expect strip someone of their CEng
> status if an individual proposed such silly things. Even if you do this at home, you
> are putting the lives of others at risk.
>
> * Children might accidentally get into the shack and unplug a cable.
>
> * You might have an accident, an ambulance called, and they need to remove a cable. I
> expect they would switch things off before touching electrical equipment, but would not
> reasonably expect a cable to be alive when powered off, which will happen in this case
> due to the time for the HV capacitors to discharge.
>
> There are a number of "unlikely" but probably fatal circumstances in which this would
> be an issue.
>
>
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Vic, K2VCO
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