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Subject: [TowerTalk] PL-259 RF Coaxical Connectors
From: Bill Mills1 <millsend@windstream.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 09:37:29 -0500
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> 
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 3:12 PM Bill Mills1 <millsend@windstream.net 
> <mailto:millsend@windstream.net>> wrote:
> Pete,
> 
> From many years of experience as a career U.S. Army Signal Corps Officer and 
> amateur radio operator, I have used and soldered a large number of USA made 
> PL-259 coaxial connectors.  The USA is now flooded with poor copies of PL-259 
> RF coaxial connectors made in China and sold by the Wireman and other hamfest 
> sellers.  Place a US Military Spec or  Amphenol PL-259 coaxial connector side 
> by side a Chinese copy and see the difference.
> 
> What makes me angry is the answers you receive from the Wireman and other 
> hamfest sellers will give you when you ask them where their knock off  PL-259 
> is manufactured.   The China PL-259 copies are inferior quality.  In 2017 I 
> attended the Dayton Hamconvention and found a seller of Amphenol PL-259 
> coaxial connectors in bulk quantities.  I purchased 100 each Amphenol PL-259 
> for $100.00.  Like others have mentioned, I purchase only Amphenol and US 
> Military Spec PL-259 coaxial connectors marked with the manufacture name.  
> Over the years, I have found great buys on USA made  PL-259 connectors at the 
> hamfests.  DX Engineering currently sells a four pack of Amphenol PL-259 
> connectors for RG-213 cable for $22.99. 
> 
> I do not use solderless crimp on PL-259 connectors.  PL-259 connectors were 
> designed to be soldered!
> 
> 73,
> Bill
> KC4AA

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