Steve and all:

Ok, it's time for me to get enlightened again here.

Can someone give me a good source for crimp-on PL259 coax connectors?

I personally would only use them in-doors, and would like to get some for my 
inside radio connections.

Over the years, I have used the ones sold by radio shack, where you slip the 
center conductor into the connector, and then establish a connection with 
the braid via a set screw, but those inevitably fail after a period of time, 
not to mention the number of those little screws that I've lost!  (grin)

I agree that, in the perfect world, everything would be soldered, but I'm 
not perfect, and neither is the world, and I think crimp-on connectors do 
have their place for those of us who aren't the greatest solderers.

73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Forst" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: crimping verses solder


> Sure, in  that perfect world solder is better, but the truth is that most
> sighted hams have a hard time getting full  contact with the braid, as 
> well
> as the real possibility of melting the center insulator.  If it was a 
> piece
> of cake, there wouldn't be 400  "better" ways on the internet to solder
> them.
>
> To each his own.
>
> 73, Steve KW3A