[TowerTalk] DIN to coax connector?

[Steve Maki]

You make a jumper with a DIN on one end and a PL259 connector on the other.

Or you order a custom made jumper from any number of places that do 
that, like DX engineering.

-Steve K8LX

On 9/4/2016 17:09 PM, Chris Hoelzle wrote:
> 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??

> 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