[TowerTalk] RF Industries Connectors/Adapters : TowerTalk Digest, Vol 258, Issue 1

Sat Jun 8 14:15:08 EDT 2024

Jim, hi, I have sold RF INDUSTRIES for many years. They are a high quality connector at very good pricing.

Please contact me directly with what you need.

73. Steve Davis, K1PEK,   DAVIS RF Co., Div. Of Orion Wire Co. , Inc

Steve Davis, Snr. VP and RF Cable Design Engr. & Founder, DAVIS RF Co.          DavisRF.com
           Division of Orion Wire Co., Inc.

President, DAVIS ROPE & CABLE ASSEMBLY, LLC.                             DavisRopeAndCable.com
                           Veteran  Owned
                            978-618-0496

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Today's Topics:

  1. RF Industries Connectors/Adapters (Jim Brown)
  2. Re: RF Industries Connectors/Adapters (Jim Rhodes)
  3. Re: RF Industries Connectors/Adapters (dj7ww at t-online.de)
  4. Re: RF Industries Connectors/Adapters (Paul Christensen)
  5. Re: RF Industries Connectors/Adapters (Richard Thorne)
  6. Re: RF Industries Connectors/Adapters (Paul Christensen)
  7. Re: RF Industries Connectors/Adapters (Ken Alker)
  8. Re: RF Industries Connectors/Adapters (Bill Cotter)
  9. Re: RF Industries Connectors/Adapters (Richard (Rick) Karlquist)

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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 21:53:39 -0700
From: Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
To: towertalk reflector <towertalk at contesting.com>
Subject: [TowerTalk] RF Industries Connectors/Adapters
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I need to buy a few 2-3) coax adapters, N-female to PL-259 Male.
Amphenol parts seem to be close to unobtainium -- > $160 each in lots of
7, delivery in 3 months. I see nothing in the surplus market. Don't want
junk. I see RF Industries parts listed in the $5 range. Any experience
with quality of their products?

73, Jim K9YC

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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 04:13:39 -0600
From: Jim Rhodes <jimk0xu at gmail.com>
To: jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Cc: towertalk reflector <towertalk at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] RF Industries Connectors/Adapters
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I needed a product of their's a number of years ago and they said that they
couldn't sell to me directly but to get in touch with The RF Connection and
they could special order them for me. (I wanted to replace SO-239s with
BNCs on some portable gear so I needed some with the same bolt pattern.)
Never had any issues with them.  But The RFC might be someone to talk to as
it seems they are or were a dealer.

On Fri, Jun 7, 2024, 22:53 Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:

I need to buy a few 2-3) coax adapters, N-female to PL-259 Male.
Amphenol parts seem to be close to unobtainium -- > $160 each in lots of
7, delivery in 3 months. I see nothing in the surplus market. Don't want
junk. I see RF Industries parts listed in the $5 range. Any experience
with quality of their products?

73, Jim K9YC

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Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 13:18:35 +0200 (MEST)
From: "dj7ww at t-online.de" <dj7ww at t-online.de>
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Cc: "towertalk at contesting.com" <towertalk at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] RF Industries Connectors/Adapters
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Hi Jim,

Max Gain Systems typically sell good quality stuff.
I don?t know about the adapters in particular but everything I or friends bought there were excellent.

https://mgs4u.com/product/type-n-female-to-uhf-male-adapter-better-7521/

73
Peter

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I need to buy a few 2-3) coax adapters, N-female to PL-259 Male.
Amphenol parts seem to be close to unobtainium -- > $160 each in lots of
7, delivery in 3 months. I see nothing in the surplus market. Don't want
junk. I see RF Industries parts listed in the $5 range. Any experience
with quality of their products?

73, Jim K9YC

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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 07:52:54 -0400
From: "Paul Christensen" <w9ac at arrl.net>
To: "'towertalk reflector'" <towertalk at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] RF Industries Connectors/Adapters
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"I see RF Industries parts listed in the $5 range. Any experience with
quality of their products?"

I use RF Industries exclusively for crimp connectors.   Commercial wireless
carriers use their connectors and the product line is carried by Tessco, a
major commercial wireless supplier.  If you can create a commercial account
with Tessco, there's substantial savings.  I would expect their
between-series adapters to be of high quality.

Paul, W9AC

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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 07:11:20 -0500
From: Richard Thorne <rthorne at rthorne.net>
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] RF Industries Connectors/Adapters
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Jim,

When I was building my station 10 plus years ago I ordered adapters from
Tessco.com

I ordered part number 94997 and 56604.  They are RF industry adapters.
I just checked their website and the part numbers are still the same.

in 2015 the price I paid for 94997 was $5.37 each.  I'm sure there has
been a price increase since then.  The price shown before registering is
$12.44
https://www.tessco.com/product/n-female-uhf-male-adapter-94997?_br_psugg_q=94997

I also ordered Polyphaser Arrestors (65935) at the same time.

You will need to come up with a company name and register.  Once
registered the prices are discounted.

The service was good and they shipped quickly.

Rich - N5ZC

On 6/7/2024 11:53 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
I need to buy a few 2-3) coax adapters, N-female to PL-259 Male.
Amphenol parts seem to be close to unobtainium -- > $160 each in lots of
7, delivery in 3 months. I see nothing in the surplus market. Don't want
junk. I see RF Industries parts listed in the $5 range. Any experience
with quality of their products?

73, Jim K9YC

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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 08:19:34 -0400
From: "Paul Christensen" <w9ac at arrl.net>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] RF Industries Connectors/Adapters
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At the time of account creation with Tessco for commercial pricing, they
required a company FEIN as well as telephone verification.  I suspect it's
still not as easy as creating a fictitious company name for registration.

Paul, W9AC

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] RF Industries Connectors/Adapters

Jim,

When I was building my station 10 plus years ago I ordered adapters from
Tessco.com

I ordered part number 94997 and 56604.  They are RF industry adapters.
I just checked their website and the part numbers are still the same.

in 2015 the price I paid for 94997 was $5.37 each.  I'm sure there has been
a price increase since then.  The price shown before registering is
$12.44
https://www.tessco.com/product/n-female-uhf-male-adapter-94997?_br_psugg_q=9
4997

I also ordered Polyphaser Arrestors (65935) at the same time.

You will need to come up with a company name and register.  Once registered
the prices are discounted.

The service was good and they shipped quickly.

Rich - N5ZC

On 6/7/2024 11:53 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
I need to buy a few 2-3) coax adapters, N-female to PL-259 Male.
Amphenol parts seem to be close to unobtainium -- > $160 each in lots
of 7, delivery in 3 months. I see nothing in the surplus market. Don't
want junk. I see RF Industries parts listed in the $5 range. Any
experience with quality of their products?

73, Jim K9YC

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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 06:30:58 -0700
From: Ken Alker <ka6ken at alker.net>
To: towertalk reflector <towertalk at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] RF Industries Connectors/Adapters
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At Santa Barbara Electronics Supply I have been selling RF Industries
PL-259s for a decade (and my predecessors at the Santa Barbara based MarVac
Dow Electronics for probably 50 years before that).  I've used RF
Industries parts in my shack.  I don't have any empirical evidence of
qualify, but I've never had any complaints.  I also sell Pan Pacific (no
complaints there, either).

The ham operator looking for the best price buys Pan Pacific from me.  The
ham operator looking for best quality buys RF Industries.  The RF
Industries PL-259 I sell is the "501" (like the Jeans) which has a teflon
dialectric and silver body, unlike what I can get from Pan Pacific.

My rep for the RF Industries parts has been in the industries since the
60's (yep!) and is a ham as well, so I trust his opinion.  He sells 1000's
of RF Industries connectors every year.  I still have the note I made when
I first started buying from him, and I quote, "I suggest keeping a dozen
501's around for the guy who wants the best and you sell him one of
these... teflon dialectric and silver body... as good as can be for a
PL259.  We carry Times connectors too, but realistically Times would be
50%-100% more."  So, it seems Times was making connectors back then as
well, and maybe they still do but I've never carried Times as RF Industries
did the job for my ham customers.

My experience above is all about PL-259's coaxial connectors but I ASSuME
we can extend this information to the N-female to PL-259 male adapters as
well.  I *might* even have some in stock, but I'm not at the store this
weekend (annual DX BBQ in Arroyo Grande today; I'm sure I'll see at least
one of your there, Dick :-).

I hope this helps.

Ken Alker
KA6KEN

--On Saturday, June 8, 2024 4:13 AM -0600 Jim Rhodes <jimk0xu at gmail.com>
wrote:

I needed a product of their's a number of years ago and they said that
they couldn't sell to me directly but to get in touch with The RF
Connection and they could special order them for me. (I wanted to replace
SO-239s with BNCs on some portable gear so I needed some with the same
bolt pattern.) Never had any issues with them.  But The RFC might be
someone to talk to as it seems they are or were a dealer.

On Fri, Jun 7, 2024, 22:53 Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:

I need to buy a few 2-3) coax adapters, N-female to PL-259 Male.
Amphenol parts seem to be close to unobtainium -- > $160 each in lots of
7, delivery in 3 months. I see nothing in the surplus market. Don't want
junk. I see RF Industries parts listed in the $5 range. Any experience
with quality of their products?

73, Jim K9YC

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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 10:48:46 -0400
From: Bill Cotter <n4lg at qx.net>
To: jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Cc: towertalk reflector <towertalk at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] RF Industries Connectors/Adapters
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Jim,

I have used hundreds of RFI UHF, N, and BNC crimp connectors for
years with great success. The only failures were dumb mistakes that
I made. The crimps are well made, tight and resistant to pull-out
from thermal contraction of the cable. The center pin is a
gas-tight connection and the braid is hex ring crimped over a
knurled surface.

I bought the RFI Crimp Tool with several dies for different coax
types. And, the coax stripper from DXE. A good investment overall.

73 Bill N4LG

At 12:53 AM 6/8/2024, Jim Brown wrote:
I need to buy a few 2-3) coax adapters, N-female to PL-259 Male.
Amphenol parts seem to be close to unobtainium -- > $160 each in
lots of 7, delivery in 3 months. I see nothing in the surplus
market. Don't want junk. I see RF Industries parts listed in the
$5 range. Any experience with quality of their products?

73, Jim K9YC

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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 08:26:50 -0700
From: "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" <richard at karlquist.com>
To: Ken Alker <ka6ken at alker.net>,    towertalk reflector
   <towertalk at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] RF Industries Connectors/Adapters
Message-ID: <f69bceac-0b9e-4425-8088-be7c969265c6 at karlquist.com>
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On 6/8/2024 6:30 AM, Ken Alker wrote:

The ham operator looking for the best price buys Pan Pacific from me.
The ham operator looking for best quality buys RF Industries.? The RF
Industries PL-259 I sell is the "501" (like the Jeans) which has a
teflon dialectric and silver body, unlike what I can get from Pan Pacific.

Ken Alker
KA6KEN

IMHO, the gratuitous use of PTFE dielectric can in no way be
read as any particular indicator of "quality," whatever that means.
For PL-259 frequencies, the low loss is superfluous.  The high
temperature handling of PTFE is compromised by its soft mechanical
characteristics.  OTOH, I have never heard of the mil-spec Amphenol
dielectrics melting or softening when soldering.  I have encountered
many PTFE connectors that were unmitigated junk.

Rick N6RK

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