[TowerTalk] DIN Connectors You Can't Solder To

[Roger (K8RI)]

A search of various vendors, or a Google Search on 8-Pin DIN connectors and 
cables should find cables of various lengths with 8-Pin DIN connectors. I 
found what I needed at Amazon and as I recall the Mouser catalog may also 
list cable assembliles

Roger (K8RI)

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> I wonder if there  are any vendors that supply various DIN and other style 
> connectors, wired up, on one end and having  raw tails, that can be 
> soldered to more easily.  Or perhaps complete cables, soldered, with the 
> good molded stress reliefs, etc  that are double ended, so that you could 
> buy a 4 footer double ended  DIN , chop in in half and put the particular 
> connector needed  on the raw end.
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>> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:48:59 -0600
>> From: johnb3030 at comcast.net
>> To: towertalk at contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] DIN Connectors You Can't Solder To
>>
>> I've been following this thread with interest since I need to buy an 8
>> pin DIN connector myself for the band data connector of my FT-1000.
>>
>> I notice in Jameco's catalog that they now have many products available
>> in both conventional and "RoHS compliant" versions, and this includes
>> DIN connectors. I will certainly NOT be ordering an RoHS compliant DIN
>> connector.
>>
>> It seems obvious that the design of the DIN plugs is such that they are
>> surely intended to be hand soldered. That raises the question of what
>> the manufacturers of the RoHS compliant version are doing to ensure that
>> this is possible. There must be a type of wire solder and flux that is
>> RoHS compliant. Otherwise why make an RoHS compliant connector which
>> requires hand soldering? What solder and flux should be used?
>>
>> I'm also wondering in the case of the original poster, who received
>> unsolderable connectors with some ICE filters, if it is possible that
>> ICE obtained their connectors from the least expensive source possible,
>> and if that source was possibly some off-brand third world vendor who
>> wasn't terribly interested in quality control. Is this an isolated
>> problem or one which many have experienced?
>>
>> Does anyone know who actually makes DIN connectors?
>>
>> 73,
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>> John, K9MM
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