[TowerTalk] LMR600 male DIN

[Roger (K8RI) on TT]

Take care!
According to the Amphenol page N-Type are not water proof/weather proof.

73

Roger (K8RI)

On 9/6/2016 Tuesday 4:17 PM, Hardy Landskov wrote:
> All,
> I abandoned PL259's, SO239's, etc years ago. I found many coax switches,
> couplers, were made with N connectors at prices that I could not pass up on
> surplus markets. They are truly 50 ohm, water proof, and are everywhere.
> I also use HN connectors which are capable of higher power.
>
> UHF connectors are not water proof and are designed for 35 ohms...and are
> terrible to solder with. As far as DIN's are concerned, I don't want to go
> there now. I am happy with N's.
> My 2 centavos
> 73 Hardy N7RT/4
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> john at kk9a.com
> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2016 3:23 PM
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] LMR600 male DIN
>
> It was an interesting tower discussion. When I moved 11 years ago and
> completely rebuilt my station I would have used DIN connectors if I had
> known about them. My main runs are mostly 1 1/4 and 1 5/8 Heliax with N
> connectors. I have no immediate plans to change out my N connectors but
> maybe someday if I have nothing to do.  I did learn a few things about
> availability of braided coax DIN connectors from this discussion.
>
> The 7/8 Cellflex sounds like a pretty good deal, to save money you could use
> 1/2" on 80m and 160m.
>
> GL with your installation!
> John KK9A
>
>
> To:	towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject:	Re: [TowerTalk] LMR600 male DIN
> From:	Bob K6UJ <k6uj at pacbell.net>
> Date:	Tue, 6 Sep 2016 10:27:08 -0700
>
> John,
>
> Point well taken and I appreciate your input. This is uncharted waters for
> me going beyond RG8 and PL-259's, hihi.
> I did what probably most of you have done and made an excel spreadsheet
> showing all the feedlines, RG, LMR, Heliax, Cellflex, etc. in different
> sizes and the loss for 100 ft for all the bands from 80 to 10 meters.
> I also added a cost column, which is very illuminating hihi.
>
> As far as connectors go I have decided to go with DIN connectors.
> So now to decide on the feedline. Cost wise the 7/8" Cellflex looks very
> good and has just about the same loss as LDF5-50, at about half the price.
>
>
> Bob
> K6UJ
>
>
>
>
> On 9/6/16 5:00 AM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
> According to the timesmicrowave and commscope websites at 30MHz LMR600 has
> 0.4dB/100ft loss and LDF4 has 0.357/100ft. They are very close in specs and
> price so of the two I would pick the most durable.  The real point of my
> post was that K6UJ seemed more concerned about the connector than the coax
> that is was attached to. Personally I would rather have 300ft of LDF7 with
> and N connector than 300ft of LMR600 with a commercial quality DIN.
>
> John KK9A
>
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Roger (K8RI)


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