[TowerTalk] Amphenol PL259

[Jim Brown]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:23:32 -0400, Pete Michaelis - N8TR wrote:

>They do have
>a nickel plating but I file the area around the solder holes and use
>a 200 watt American Beauty soldering iron.  They usually are  less
>expensive than the silver plated 83-1SP connectors.

I've installed lots of both nickel and silver-plated Amphenols, and I've 
used the same scraping trick to solder to the nickels. The silvers are WELL 
WORTH the small additional cost. The LAST thing I want to do is apply any 
more heat than necessary and take the chance of melting a cable dielectric. 

As to the cheapies, I've melted dielectrics of the connectors themselves. 

I now use nothing but Amphenol silvers, and buy in lots of 25 or so to get 
the price break. My last buy was from Allied or Newark, don't recall which. 

73,

Jim K9YC