Well, I did say that I do not solder the shield. And I use the connectors
both indoors and outdoors, both on HF and VHF at high power.
Of course there would be problems if the CENTER conductor is not soldered,
I always solder it properly.
73/Peter SM2CEW
www.qsl.net/sm2cew
At 05:45 2001-10-23 , you wrote:
>
>I'll second Tom's comment on RX vs TX on loose solder joints in PL259. Just
>cured an intermittent RX problem on my WARC beam that had plagued me for
>several weeks. After checking all over the shack for possible easy fixes
>finally got to a PL259 in the coax outside which had the center conductor
>solder connection to pin loosened. Replaced the connector with good solder
>joints and problem solved.
>
>73 Don K5AQ
>
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