[TowerTalk] Hardline to PL259 NOT PL258 (Barrel)

[Pete Smith]

At 10:03 PM 9/24/00 -0400, Robert Shohet wrote:
>
>Double males are very prone to breakage, mechanically weak and very
>expensive - if you can even find the good ones.
>I don't like using double males with RG8X as they break constantly, but with
>coiled hardline I know that I would be really asking for trouble.  I would
>rather try almost anything else.  That's why I want to find out if there is
>a good way of creating an adapter with hardline on one side and a pl259 on
>the other so that I can simply screw it into a pl258 or T connector.

I think Bob makes a good point, here, but in any case I would want a short
coax pigtail between a heavy coil of hardline and whatever it was to be
connected to, simply as strain relief.

73, Pete Smith N4ZR

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