Thanks to those that responded. I was able to cut the cable back a little way and use steel wool to clean the braid enough to take solder
Thanks, John n3dab wrote: >Since you have to diconnect it at the antenna end (the almost unreachable >place ) and it is not for a repeater, why not just cut it back to where it is >convenient to work on it (preferably indoors and weather protected) and >provide a new piece of cable as a jumper to the antenna. If you cut the old >cable back far enough from the exposed end you should be able to get to clean >braid and center conductor, and insert ing a barrel connector wont degrade >your signal enough to worry about. > >Doug N3DAB >
