You are entirely correct.
While doing this exercise on cellular tower tops it was necessary to
hand-trim the heliax "just so," because right after, the Wiltron Sweep
Tester
would be applied, and any glitch would mean starting all over again.
A typical cell tower had three sectors and three jumpers at the top,
sometimes more when Diversity channels were in place.
Hal/W4HBM
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 11:19:08 +0100 Ian White G/GM3SEK
<gm3sek@ifwtech.co.uk> writes:
> Peter Chadwick wrote:
>
> For a real nightmare thread, try the one on the older Andrew
> connectors
> for LDF-5 Heliax. The inner conductor of that cable is hollow, and
> the
> center pin was screwed in using a self-tapping thread that had both
> a
> conical taper and a self-tightening variable pitch.
>
> But their cable splice connector was even worse. To be able to screw
> the
> two center conductors together without having to twist the whole
> length
> of cable, it needed a copper slug with the above-mentioned thread on
> one
> end, and a left-handed version on the other!
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