[TowerTalk] Compression-type PL-259s

[Ken Alexander]

I'd rather pound on my thumb with a hammer than solder another PL-259 onto a cable, but my limited experience with crimp-on PL-259s was even worse.  Always intermittent.  Maybe the crimping tool I was using wasn't so good, so I've gone back to soldering.

Why can't everything use BNC and N connectors?

73,

Ken Alexander
VE3HLS


--- On Thu, 1/20/11, Pete Smith <n4zr at contesting.com> wrote:

> From: Pete Smith <n4zr at contesting.com>
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Compression-type PL-259s
> To: "TowerTalk" <TowerTalk at contesting.com>
> Date: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 5:16 PM
> Has anyone had any experience with
> compression-type PL-259s?  I haven't 
> had any in my hands yet, but they appear in places like the
> Farnell 
> catalog in the UK, and use a compression scheme similar to
> compression 
> Type N connectors, which seem to be much more common. 
> I would do almost 
> anything not EVER to solder another PL-259 braid
> connection, and my 
> experience with crimping other types of connectors, such as
> type F, has 
> been miserable.  What got me started on this today was
> that I just 
> bought a compression tool and some connectors (F and BNC)
> at Lowe's 
> today and the F connectors, at least, seem to work quite
> well - very 
> positive physically and seem sound electrically.  I
> realize the 
> compression scheme for the larger connectors is different,
> but anything 
> would be better....
> 
> -- 
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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