[TowerTalk] DIN to coax connector?

[Chris Hoelzle]

I have never used 7/16 DIN connectors. It seems impossible to find an
adapter to go from 7/16 DIN to UHF. As hams, we need to plug into our rigs
and antennas with UHF connectors - How do you jump the gap??

NN6CH
Chris Hoelzle 
choelzle at cox.net 
Laguna Niguel, CA 
-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Steve
Maki
Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2016 8:34 AM
To: towertalk
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] DIN to coax connector?

On 9/2/2016 0:33 AM, Jim Brown wrote:

>> I've been gradually converting to all DINs everywhere that it's 
>> reasonable.

> Why? Are all your systems at UHF?

No. In my business we use nothing but 7-16 DIN nowadays and it does not take
long working with them (like 5 minutes) to realize how superior they are,
even if just mechanically (at HF). And of course I have a good supply on
hand, being in the biz.

So when I ran all new hardline out to the towers a few years ago, it was an
easy decision to switch to DINs on the main lines and on jumpers - at each
end of the hardlines - to the point where I encounter a device with a UHF
connector that is inconvenient to replace, like a wattmeter, balun, etc.

-Steve K8LX



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