I'd rather pound on my thumb with a hammer than solder another PL-259 onto a
cable, but my limited experience with crimp-on PL-259s was even worse. Always
intermittent. Maybe the crimping tool I was using wasn't so good, so I've gone
back to soldering.
Why can't everything use BNC and N connectors?
73,
Ken Alexander
VE3HLS
--- On Thu, 1/20/11, Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com> wrote:
> From: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Compression-type PL-259s
> To: "TowerTalk" <TowerTalk@contesting.com>
> Date: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 5:16 PM
> Has anyone had any experience with
> compression-type PL-259s? I haven't
> had any in my hands yet, but they appear in places like the
> Farnell
> catalog in the UK, and use a compression scheme similar to
> compression
> Type N connectors, which seem to be much more common.
> I would do almost
> anything not EVER to solder another PL-259 braid
> connection, and my
> experience with crimping other types of connectors, such as
> type F, has
> been miserable. What got me started on this today was
> that I just
> bought a compression tool and some connectors (F and BNC)
> at Lowe's
> today and the F connectors, at least, seem to work quite
> well - very
> positive physically and seem sound electrically. I
> realize the
> compression scheme for the larger connectors is different,
> but anything
> would be better....
>
> --
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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