On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:01:08 -0600, Chris W wrote:

Bob Miller wrote:

As Doc said, solder.

Get a Weller SP-120 soldering iron. It's 120 watts. About $46. You can
typically find it by Googling.


Thanks for the suggestion on the iron, I found it for $40 which isn't
too bad.

You'll need that kind of heat to solder coax connector outer shells to
the braid. Get the ARRL Handbook, and look at their pages on soldering
coax connectors.


I guess the book you are talking about isn't the antenna book, I can't
find much on soldering in there.

If you have the ARRL Antenna Book (I have the 19th edition) page 24-21
talks about PL-259 assembly, and explains how to prepare the coax and
solder it to the connector. This is in the chapter labled
"Transmission Lines" if you have another edition of the book.

bob
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