[TowerTalk] Crimp on Coax connectors

[Glenn Pritchard]

Yes there are,
We use them for land installs however we have also soldered the center pin on the LMR400 for years and have never had any issue. The main reason is the salt environment on ships and smaller vessels.
On our repeater installs it isn’t a problem.
As I mentioned earlier be careful on who you buy from, Amphenol has an excellent product.

Glenn, VA7UO 

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> On Sep 7, 2019, at 10:32 AM, W3YY <w3yy at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Dick -
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> 
> 
> It looks like there are Amphenol PL-259 and N-series crimp connectors for
> LMR-400 that allow crimping the center pin. See the DXE chart and the "Hex
> crimp center pin" row in the chart at
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> https://static.dxengineering.com/global/images/chartsguides/d/dxe-ut-kit-crm
> p2_ty.pdf   
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> 
> 
> DXE carries at least the PL-259 types in their catalog. 
> 
> 73, Bob - W3YY
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: wc1m73 at gmail.com [mailto:wc1m73 at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2019 5:46 PM
> To: 'Richard (Rick) Karlquist'; 'W3YY'; towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] Crimp on Coax connectors
> 
> You have to solder the center pin if it's not designed to be crimped, as is
> the case with LMR-400 compatible UHF crimp connectors like the ones from
> DXE.
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