"Jerry Stuckle" wrote in message
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Are you sure the braid is aluminum and not silver coated copper? We use
RG-6-quad, which has two layers of foil alternating with two layers of
silvered copper braid.


I don't have that much experiance with the rg-6, but I have never seen any
that used silver coated copper. Just way too expensive for the cable TV
industry. I have used lots of silver coated rg-400 and rg-214. They take
solder very well. The rg-6 braid I have seen will not take solder. I have
used regular 60/40 and some silver bearing solder also. Have used several
soldering guns up to the largest Weller (thinking around 325 watts ) gun.

I have been a ham for over 40 years and put on lots of pl259 solder
connectors and lately the crimp on 259, bnc and N types.

Just lately I may put up an antenna that needs to have a 1/4 wavelength of
70 ohm coax as a matching segment. I have some rg-6 laying around the
house,but not any rg59 or rg11. Just trying to find something that will let
me connect that braid that I can not solder to to a # 14 stranded wire and
will stand up being outside.