[TowerTalk] Amphenol Connector Brands

[john at kk9a.com]

Amphenol 83-1SP connectors are ~$10 at the electronic suppliers however you
can purchase them for $7.50 at DX Engineering.

Are you are using generic RG-400?  Name brand is $5.00+/foot and I haven't
seen it on the surplus market in a while. 


John KK9A 


Stan Stockton K5GO wrote:

Here is my experience with UHF connectors.

I'm sorry I ever bought the stuff to crimp on connectors for RG-213 sized
coax.  I like the ones you solder and will probably limit my crimping to
RG-400 since I have the tools.

As for the Amphenol 83-1SP, I'm quite sure it's a great connector and no
doubt I have purchased many in the past but that was probably a couple
decades ago.  Since then I buy Teflon insulated, silver plated connectors
without a brand name on EBAY for, IDK, $2.00 each and I'm quite happy with
them.  

I have never, ever had a situation when I have said to myself - I wish I had
used a top of the line Amphenol connector.  

If my station consisted of a radio, an amplifier and 4 antennas using about
a dozen connectors I might buy 83-1SP connectors.  However, if I were on a
budget or had a hundred connectors involved, I would not pay over $10.00 for
a connector that, in my experience, will not do the job any better than the
$2.00 one.  If I had a total of $5,000 to spend on a new radio station, it
would not even cross my mind to buy 83-1SP connectors.

73 & HNY.Stan K5GO/ZF9CW