Here's a link to a photo I made during a recent service call. Someone has cut the Heliax to our UHF receive antenna and spliced a piece of RG-58 to it. Seriously, if you're going to hijack an antenna, at least you could spring for a lousy connector!
http://www.lafn.org/~jeffk/CoaxSpliceSm.jpg Jeff W6JK --- In [email protected], "Steve & Peg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I recall a problem with a UHF repeater with terrible desense that I had some 30 years ago. The original installer didn't have an N connector for the pigtail and used an N to BNC female adapter and stuck one wire of the RG8 in the center hole and soldered the braid to the outside. Needless to say it didn't work. Replacing that thing (which I still have) corrected the problem and it ended its service life with my repair. > > Steve KB3FPN >
