On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 15:53:28 -0000 "Alan Melia"
<[email protected]> 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
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