Topband: new style PL-259's with screw on back INSTRUCTIONS

[Clive GM3POI]

From: MU 4CX250B [mailto:4cx250b at miamioh.edu] 
Sent: 05 December 2018 16:04
To: Clive GM3POI
Cc: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: new style PL-259's with screw on back INSTRUCTIONS

 

Finally, after years of frustration with several types of PL259 connectors, I've settled on the new crimp/solder type from DX Engineering. They're strong, reliable, and easy to install in minutes while dangling from a tower. Soldering is only for the center conductor. 

The downsides are that they're a bit pricey, and require a crimp connector.  Over the past year, I've bought about fifty of them and am gradually swapping them into all my indoor and outdoor cables. Here's a link: https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/dxe-pl259cs8x-12

 

BTW, I'm also phasing out all the LMR-400 (both the ordinary and superflex types) in my station  and going back to plain old RG213. The modest attenuation improvement of LMR400 over the earlier RG--type cables is negligible at HF frequencies, and the Al foil and awkward-size center conductor of the LMR cables have been, for me, nothing but trouble. 

73,

Jim W8ZR

 

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On Dec 5, 2018, at 8:27 AM, Clive GM3POI <clive at gm3poi.com> wrote:

I have been using those plugs for at least 10 years. They come in useful if
you have to put on a plug in cold weather and or high winds because no braid
soldering is needed. However at the back of equipment they are more
temperamental than regular 259's  because the threads tend to be difficult.
YMMV
73 Clive GM3POI 

-----Original Message-----
From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of MICHAEL
ST ANGELO
Sent: 05 December 2018 14:49
To: Pete Michaelis - N8TR; topband at contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: new style PL-259's with screw on back INSTRUCTIONS

These are compression connectors similar to the N type compression
connector.

I use them as well as crimp type UHF connectors because I don't like the
solder type PL259 connectors for RG-8. RG-58 or LMR-400 type coax.

Pasternack offers a similar type connector. Their data sheet has assembly
instructions. You can use it as a guide.

<https://www.pasternack.com/images/ProductPDF/PE44050.pdf>

Mike N2MS





On December 5, 2018 at 12:34 AM Pete Michaelis - N8TR

<pete.n8tr at gmail.com> wrote:



 

 

EBAY item 192225630585 looks similar to the Multicomp clamp 

connector  discussed on

Towertalk early in 2011.   See:

http://lists.contesting.com/_towertalk/2011-02/msg00214.html

 

73, Pete - N8TR

 

 

 

At 09:45 PM 12/4/2018, terry burge wrote:

 

Hi Gary

Take a look at ebay 'UHF PL259 male clamp Plug lot connector for 

LMR400 RG8 RG213 RG214 Coax cable' from 'superstore_dan'.

Terry

KI7M

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