Hey ya 'young whippersnapper' calm down some? If you want to know 'stuff' about Elecraft equipment, this IS the place. If you want to know something about antennas/feed lines, try www.towertalk.com which is the correct place for this PL259 thread in the first place. If you don't know where to look for information, ASK! But just about every time someone says "How do you........" there are typically 30 to 100 responses of 'how I do it', nothing related to Elecraft equipment. I'm sure the Elecraft reflector moderator does not really have the time to stop these type threads every time they get started simply because he is off helping make a company run.
Tom - W4BQF (no longer a 'young whippersnapper') -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frank Precissi Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 12:28 AM To: Elecraft Group Subject: Re: [Elecraft] FW: Proper installation of PL 259's On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Dr. William J. Schmidt, II < [email protected]> wrote: > So far I've counted 96 posts on soldering connectors onto coax. Really? Yeah, really. A lot of people take really common stuff for granted, like soldering connectors onto coax. For those of us who don't have decades of experience/mistakes under their belt (and who got their ticket in the era of the internet and pre-made coax), small things like this (which have big impacts) are lost to convenience. For every person like me who freely admits that I dont know the correct way to solder a PL-259 and thought pre-made was 'good enough', there are probably 10 who are too afraid to come forward to admit it. You should be happy that some of us /want/ to make their own coax instead of the premade stuff. Isn't that keeping a little part of the 'real' hobby alive. I'll get off your lawn now. Im just a young whippersnapper. Frank KG6EYC -- CW: NAQCC #6554 | SKCC #10435 | FISTS #16155 | SOC #1038 | FPQRP #3186 Digital: FHC #4224 | 30MDG #6370 | DMC #5698 Gear: K3 #7164 | KX3 #1787 http://vadept.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
