I detest the prep and the inability of any Weller soldering gun I own to heat
the barrel of the connector up to soldering temperature in my lifetime without
melting the cable jacket.
I've migrated to crimp on UHF and N connectors. I do solder the center pin on
the UHF jobs. I really don't see how crimping the shield and protecting it
with heat shrink is any worse than soldering and protecting with heat shrink.
All the failures I have experiences were from water ingress eating away at the
dielectric, The electrical connections were fine, while the dielectric turned
black 2 feet from the connector.
Al
AB2ZY
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From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com [towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Tom Martin [tmartin@chartermi.net]
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 1:44 PM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] Soldering PL-259
A few weeks ago, I started with a 50' length of RG-213 and, after many
attempts at soldering PL-259s, the coax was 44' long. HI!
Lately, I have been ordering coax lengths with the connectors already soldered.
I use them for runs from external antenna relays to the antennas.
DIN plugs are the job that I really hate. I order a few more than I need
because of soldering errors.
73,
Tom W8JWN
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