[TowerTalk] RG-6

[Mike]

I meant unfortunately for the guy that bought the cable, not the compression
fittings.  I have a bunch of these fitting and the tool, the guy could
always stop a Cable guy and ask him to put a couple of compression fittings
on for  him.

Fry's Electronics have a pretty nice F to 259 adapter, that work well.  In
fact Fry's have a bunch of hard to get adapters for RF.

Mike

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] RG-6



Mike wrote:
> They assume that you are going to use compression fittings with that stuff
> unfortunately.
>   
Unfortunately?  Compression connectors are generally good and much 
better than the cheap crimp connectors generally seen, easy to attach, 
mechanically sound, and mostly waterproof. OTOH they do take an 
insertion tool though.

73

Roger (K8RI)
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
>
> It's not meant to be soldered it's supposed to be crimped on to an F type
> connector.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barrie Smith [mailto:barrie at centric.net]
> Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 4:11 PM
> To: Tower and HF antenna construction topics.
> Subject: [TowerTalk] RG-6
>
>
> 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.
>
> Any suggrstions as to how to solder this stuff?
>
> 73, Barrie, W7ALW
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>
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