[TowerTalk] Soldering Iron, Connectors, Cable

[Bob K6UJ]

Bryan,

What a smug response.
Your decades of experience.....hihi
This might come as a shock to you but there are members here that 
actually have more experience
than you and more importantly have more technical knowledge than you.
Lose the attitude and help us support one another.

Bob
K6UJ



You chased Guy, WB5UAA off the EHAM antenna forum with your

On 5/10/16 2:31 PM, Bryan Swadener via TowerTalk wrote:
> I apologize for presenting my opinion.
> Clearly, someone knows better than I.
> My decades of experience must mean
> nothing.
>
> Bryan WA7PRC
>   
>       Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 13:52:50 -0700
> From: [Deleted]
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Soldering Iron, Connectors, Cable
>
> On Tue,5/10/2016 1:18 PM, Bryan WA7PRC via TowerTalk wrote:
>> The idea that only Amphenol produces good quality connectors is
>> not correct. There are others. DX Engineering supplies top-shelf
>> connectors and adapters at reasonable cost.
> Unless you are in the position of a mfr or vendor to buy and test
> samples from known mfrs, or have worked for a mfr who has done that,
> you're in no position to know whether a mfr's product is good or not,
> let alone "top shelf." The electronic products I've seen from DXE are of
> good quality, but I've not seen their connectors or cables.
>
>> Others have touted The RF Connection as a source of good quality connectors at reasonable cost.
> That may be, but they sell a lot of JUNK connectors too. When I got back
> on the air around 2003, I filled my parts box with 5-10 each of the 5-8
> pin DIN connectors they were selling. They were junk -- metal that
> wouldn't take solder, dielectric that melted under minimal heat from a
> good iron.
>
> In the same time frame, I also stocked up on lots of low cost coax
> connector adapters, barrels, elbows, and Tees at Chicago area hamfests,
> typically paying $2-$4 each. In the four years that followed, I learned
> the hard way that those connectors were JUNK -- they fell apart,
> overheated, went intermittent, and outright failed -- each time causing
> me lots of grief in troubleshooting the problem.  A $12 connector or
> adapter seems expensive, until you've crawled through an attic, along a
> coax run, or climbed a tower to find a $4 piece of junk.
>
>>    They seem to have a wide selection.
> Yes. They also sell Amphenol, and a broad selection of hard line
> connectors they have been able to find. But I will no longer do biz with
> them because I learned that they pulled what I consider to be a very
> dirty trick on their employee who  I dealt with on a large group
> purchase several years ago.
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