[TowerTalk] PL258s and Double Males are OK!

[Tim Duffy]

Hello Bob:

I have never had any trouble with PL258's or double male connectors as long as
they were manufactured by Amphenol. The PL258 is by far the best way to make
your adapter and following it with a double male will work great.

If you don't use Amphenol connectors, (they are expensive, but they don't break)
you are asking for a failure.

PL258 and double male quality is related to cost. There is no free lunch. If you
don't want to risk an outage during a contest, isn't it better to spend the
money on the best solution the first time rather than having a failure and
having to spend money twice?

73,
Tim K3LR



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.
>
> Bob KQ2M
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Steve Maki <steve@oakcom.com>
> To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2000 9:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Hardline to PL259 NOT PL258 (Barrel)
>
> >
> > "Robert Shohet" <kq2m@mags.net> wrote:
> >
> > >Thank you all very much for the time that you have taken to describe your
> > >techniques, tools used and so on.  I have learned a lot!  I am still
> though
> > >without an answer as to how to attach hardline to a pl259 so that the
> > >hardline has a pl259 on the end of it and NOT a pl258 (barrel).
> >
> > Wouldn't a PL258 and a double male do the trick?
> >
> > --
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