You really need two soldering irons for the job. A smaller iron to solder
the inner pin and then a big 100 watt iron to solder the outer jacket.
Mark N1UK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Al Kozakiewicz" <akozak@hourglass.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, 21 January, 2011 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Soldering PL-259
>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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> 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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