[Repeater-Builder] Re: LMR feedline revisited and revised!

2007-04-06 Thread skipp025
: RE: [Repeater-Builder] LMR feedline revisited and revised! I sure would like to hear what you all mean by constant impedance . Allan Crites, WA9ZZU Gary Schafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: LMR feedline revisited and revised!

2007-04-06 Thread Mike Perryman
-Original Message- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of skipp025 Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 12:00 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: LMR feedline revisited and revised! Ditto! Engineer-X has his pooky in a pile

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: LMR feedline revisited and revised!

2007-04-06 Thread cruising7388
In a message dated 4/6/2007 9:01:33 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A very quick summary of the end results... PL-259 Connectors are not really the UHF horror story people might assume. Skipp I agree that the categorical dissing of the electrical

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: LMR feedline revisited and revised!

2007-03-25 Thread no6b
At 3/23/2007 13:25, you wrote: Also, I had a type N connector mode pretty bad at around 6 gHz in the middle of an antenna project some years ago. It was a Kings E/U suffix. Sort of blew my faith in the 11 gHz myth, er spec. td wb6mie We had some N connectors rated for 18 GHz that I once used

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: LMR feedline revisited and revised!

2007-03-25 Thread Max Slover
Jim, I still have one of those. It was harder than hell to get something for an external antenna for it. Max... --- Jim B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone remember the Kenwood TH-21/31/41 series handhelds that had a threaded RCA connector??? wow... -- Jim Barbour WD8CHL Public

[Repeater-Builder] Re: LMR feedline revisited and revised!

2007-03-23 Thread skipp025
And Ken is right... some of us in the industry also call it an impedance bump. Going back into history... I'm told the original RCA style connector is one of the better early rf connectors. Heathkit used to drive hams crazy with it... but it is/was the better animal. And... After all

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: LMR feedline revisited and revised!

2007-03-23 Thread Ken Arck
At 08:25 AM 3/23/2007, you wrote: Going back into history... I'm told the original RCA style connector is one of the better early rf connectors. Heathkit used to drive hams crazy with it... but it is/was the better animal. ---Everyone from Motorola to GE to Marconi used RCA plugs/jacks in lower

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: LMR feedline revisited and revised!

2007-03-23 Thread Gary Schafer
: Friday, March 23, 2007 11:25 AM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: LMR feedline revisited and revised! And Ken is right... some of us in the industry also call it an impedance bump. Going back into history... I'm told the original RCA style connector

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: LMR feedline revisited and revised!

2007-03-23 Thread Jim B.
Ken Arck wrote: At 08:25 AM 3/23/2007, you wrote: Going back into history... I'm told the original RCA style connector is one of the better early rf connectors. Heathkit used to drive hams crazy with it... but it is/was the better animal. ---Everyone from Motorola to GE to Marconi used

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: LMR feedline revisited and revised!

2007-03-23 Thread DCFluX
Anyone remember the Kenwood TH-21/31/41 series handhelds that had a threaded RCA connector??? wow... -- Jim Barbour WD8CHL I just picked up a TH-31 my self. Hanz Gruber would be proud.

[Repeater-Builder] Re: LMR feedline revisited and revised!

2007-03-22 Thread skipp025
You can solder Aluminum... just not the same way as you would solder electronics parts with tin/lead solder. I work with a guy who can plate copper onto aluminum and then solder to the copper plate. I've been asking him for years how he does it and he still hasn't told me the whole story.

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: LMR feedline revisited and revised!

2007-03-22 Thread DCFluX
Too much effort for not enough return. On 3/22/07, skipp025 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can solder Aluminum... just not the same way as you would solder electronics parts with tin/lead solder. I work with a guy who can plate copper onto aluminum and then solder to the copper plate. I've

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: LMR feedline revisited and revised!

2007-03-22 Thread Chuck Kelsey
, 2007 12:48 PM Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: LMR feedline revisited and revised! Too much effort for not enough return. On 3/22/07, skipp025 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can solder Aluminum... just not the same way as you would solder electronics parts with tin/lead solder.

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: LMR feedline revisited and revised!

2007-03-22 Thread Barry C'
From: Chuck Kelsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: LMR feedline revisited and revised! Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:30:09 -0400 I'd agree. Anyway, we all know how aluminum likes to oxidize anyway

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: LMR feedline revisited and revised!

2007-03-22 Thread Kevin Custer
I'd agree. Anyway, we all know how aluminum likes to oxidize anyway. Even if it's aluminum braid against aluminum foil, it will turn to crap in short order. Chuck WB2EDV Barry C' wrote: Can't be sure , I have over the years installed quite a bit of quality quad and tri shield coax in

[Repeater-Builder] Re: LMR feedline revisited and revised!

2007-03-22 Thread Dave VanHorn
That aluminum sloder paste doesn't work either and just makes a mess of your aluminum. I'll remember to tell our production guys, as they are soldering wires to aluminum tabs on Li-Poly cells daily with the stuff.

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: LMR feedline revisited and revised!

2007-03-22 Thread DCFluX
Is that why they have a bad habit of spontanioulsy combusting? I was refer to this crap: http://www.solder-it.com/solderpaste.asp On 3/22/07, Dave VanHorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That aluminum sloder paste doesn't work either and just makes a mess of your aluminum. I'll remember to tell