[TowerTalk] RG-6

[Roger (K8RI)]

Barrie Smith wrote:
> I recently purchased 200' of RG-6 from Lowes for a receiving antenna.
>
> The braid is real strange stuff.  Looks, act and feels like steel.  I can't 
> get ordinary, resin-core solder to attach at all.  The solder just beads up 
> and falls off.
>   
It's really meant for the cheap, crimp connectors, but works well with 
the compression F connectors (bout 50 cents each but take a relatively 
pricey insertion tool)  which are more or less water proof or at least 
resistant. Quality adapters from the good F connectors to UHF connectors 
are hard to find. All I've seen were of the Radio Shack variety.

73

Roger (K8RI)
> Any suggrstions as to how to solder this stuff?
>
> 73, Barrie, W7ALW 
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