Re: Topband: new style PL-259's with screw on back INSTRUCTIONS

[Gary - K7EK via Topband <topband@contesting.com>]

You still have to solder the center pin.

Best regards,

Gary, K7EK

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On Dec 5, 2018, 13:53, at 13:53, "Chortek, Robert L." 
<robert.chortek@berliner.com> wrote:
>I also use the DXE style compression/solder PL-259s.  They are
>relatively expensive but work well and avoid the all too common “shield
>solder” problem.  They are well worth the cost.  I just wish I had
>shifted to them earlier.
>
>73,
>
>Bob AA6VB 
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Dec 6, 2018, at 7:47 AM, terry burge <ki7m@comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello again,
>> 
>> Just and FYI of why I asked about these new 'PL-259's'. I don't
>remember ever seeing them before and thought I had found perhaps a
>better style connector. With my hit-and-miss soldering especially on
>things like PL-259's I was actually thinking 'EUREKA!', something I can
>make a solid connection to the shield with. Once I even had a run of
>coax work on all bands but 10 meters on one of my multi-band beams.
>Tracked it down to not having the shield soldered good (or at all).
>Anyway, I've got 10 of these new units to try out from China and hope
>for better success. Can't begin to tell you how many times it seem I
>just can't get a soldering iron hot enough or it's too hot and the
>solder drips off. A compression style joint may be the ticket.
>> 
>> Terry
>> KI7M
>> 
>>> On December 4, 2018 at 9:34 PM Pete Michaelis - N8TR
><pete.n8tr@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> EBAY item 192225630585 looks similar to the Multicomp clamp 
>>> connector  discussed on
>>> Towertalk early in 2011.   See:
>>> http://lists.contesting.com/_towertalk/2011-02/msg00214.html
>>> 
>>> 73, Pete - N8TR
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> At 09:45 PM 12/4/2018, terry burge wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Gary
>>> Take a look at ebay 'UHF PL259 male clamp Plug lot connector for 
>>> LMR400 RG8 RG213 RG214 Coax cable' from 'superstore_dan'.
>>> Terry
>>> KI7M
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