[TowerTalk] PL-259 - can connectors be recycled?

Jim Brown jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Mon Jul 15 13:36:04 EDT 2024


On 7/15/2024 8:46 AM, Chuck Hartley wrote:
> The good ones with the silver plating are part number 83-1SP with no other
> letters in the part number. There are other PL259 with different
> combinations of plating and insulators that are typically cheaper.

This water has also been badly muddied by Amphenol's purchase of several 
connector companies, and the subsequent re-branding of the connectors 
they produce as Amphenol Connex, Amphenol RF, etc. It isn't clear to me 
which of the brands is the real Amphenol. Perhaps someone can clarify that.

73, Jim K9YC





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