----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Mann" rmann@latencyzero.com To: "Dave Guimont" dguimon1@san.rr.com Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org; "WB2LLP" wb2llp@optonline.net Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 2:25 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Where can I buy pre-made feedline?
My PL-259s were all silver-plated. So are the Ns, but they are not crimp-on; I'll still have to solder them. The part that gets soldered is of substantially lower mass than the PL-259, so hopefully it'll go better. Sigh.
-- Rick
Hi Rick,
A connector PL259s can be safely solderd only to the braid of coax cables with solid dielectric like RG-213 and so on.
If your equipment uses a soket SO-329 to fit in to a PL259 it means that for the specific frequency a low loss coax cable with lower dielectric mass like a foam dielectric is not strictly necessary.
If you like to be happy using a low loss transmission line using foam dielectric or other special low loss coax cables with lower dielectric mass than you must replace the SO-239 in your radio with a panel N/female connector.
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Best 73" de
i8CVS Domenico