[TowerTalk] coaxial stripper

[Dan Schaaf]

ooooops replied to the wrong email about my 160 meter RX loop.

Dan Schaaf
K3ZXL
"In the Beginning there was Spark Gap"
www.k3zxl.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Schaaf" <dan-schaaf at att.net>
To: "Tower and HF antenna construction topics." <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] coaxial stripper


> By the way, my loop adjustment is now more stable. and it still works
> nicely.
>
> Dan Schaaf
> K3ZXL
> "In the Beginning there was Spark Gap"
> www.k3zxl.com
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert West" <robert.west at eatmoresoap.com>
> To: "'Tower and HF antenna construction topics.'" 
> <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 10:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] coaxial stripper
>
>
> To be honest, they can stock every tower and radio part that they can but 
> as
> long as they insist on employing the cheapest labor that they can find 
> with
> the only requirement being that they can text message, you're on your own 
> at
> "The Shack".  They should have changed the name to "Cell Phone Shack" 
> since
> that's what they seem to only be interested in selling you.
>
> In the 70's I spent much of my time in and out of Radio Shack and the
> managers always knew their stuff and would go out of their way to educate.
> Now the roles have reversed where we have to explain to them what solder
> does.
>
> Sad.........
>
> Bob-
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Charles Coldwell
> Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 10:06 AM
> To: Tower and HF antenna construction topics.
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] coaxial stripper
>
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Orcena Lyle <olyle at usfamily.net> wrote:
>> I bought a coax stripper at Radio Shack but haven't used it yet. It does
>> RG6/59 cables. It looks similar to the stripper made for TV coax.
>
> For RG6/59 and CATV connectors (F connectors) I bought tooling from
> solidsignal.com that I'm happy with.  I especially like the Digicon F
> connectors.  One word of caution about those: don't try to install an
> F connector for RG6 quad shield on an RG59 cable.  Learned that the
> hard way.
>
>> My neighborhood Radio Shack
>> tells me that all the Radio Shack stores are going to be more friendly
>> toward geeks and are stocking more electronic parts and tools and such.
>
> We'll see.  I went down to "The Shack" (as they have rebranded
> themselves) looking for ferrite beads and had to explain what they
> were to the man at the counter.
>
> -- 
> Charles M. Coldwell, W1CMC
> "Turn on, log in, tune out"
> Winchester, Massachusetts, New England (FN42kk)
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