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On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 15:53:28 -0000 "Alan Melia"
<Alan.Melia@btinternet.com> writes:
> Hi Jim, you forgot the straw and camel droppings in the list of 
> materials to
> cast a "shiny" PL259. I have a feeling the difficulty soldering is 
> the much
> vaunted nickel plating. The MaCom version that Harry does is robust. 
> I spent
> about 10 years recently with a PMR firm fitting, amongst other 
> users, Taxis
> and farm tractors with PMR. We were forever having trouble with the 
> cheapies
> about 6 months after fitting, often sooner in the tractors. When we 
> started
> fitting good ones, I can never remember having to replace one. In 
> fact I
> used to scrounge the second-hand ones for personal use. We used to 
> buy from
> ITT at Harlow now Arrow....or have they been sold again.....or 
> closed
>

Consider a US company RF connections,, on the web. They sell good quality
PL 259s for 
,,I believe 2 dollars US. I place them on RG 8 cable by folding the braid
back over the
sheath and screwing them on the cable and soldering the center connecter,
sounds bad
bur really works for me. a gob of weather proofing and they are complete.
For me this 
idea works well up through 144 Mhz

Bob  K3DJC