[TowerTalk] Connectors and $

[Robert Shohet]

Mauri,

I am using these connectors to make many hardline "stubs" which will be
inside my shack NOT at the antenna.  There are many, many different types of
CATV hardline and the specific connectors are difficult to find.  They are
also quite expensive, often $25 or more and not readily available.  When you
plan to make 20 - 25 connectors for $2 apiece readily available vs. $25
apiece "lucky if you can find them", there is no contest, I would rather
build my own.

The extra $500 does matter to me, I would rather use it for other items that
I need or want.  My station is basically made up of used equipment and
homebrew other items.  I estimate that my frugality has probably saved me
about $20,000 on building my station and I don't think that my scores have
suffered much because of it.  (I buy all coax/rotor and control cables new
however).

I respect guys who want to pay top dollar for everything new or want to buy
everything rather than build it, but I would rather learn to how make and
fix stuff properly whenever possible, for the same reasons that I have
designed many of the antennas that I use.

73

Bob KQ2M



----- Original Message -----
From: Maurizio Panicara <i4jmy@iol.it>
To: <Towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] PL258s and Double Males are OK!


>
> I'm a bit astonished.......
> After so much money and efforts to erect big stations and insure
> reliability, to buy a proper connector for hardline (or heliax, cellflex
> etc) is such a great matter ?
> Does it have sense to deal like survivors "inventing" connectors ?
> Moreover a cable has two edges, one inside but the other is near the
> antennas (generally below rotators), not easily reacheable, but deserving
> all the cares for weatherproofing and mechanical. The good base are proper
> connectors.
> Surplus market is full of professional connectors, male and female, that
are
> found either for large hardlines and also for "small" RG 213.
> In the other edge of any RG213 pigtail, any PL259 connector can be
> confortably installed.
>
> 73,
> Mauri I4JMY
>
>
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