Thanks, Steve.

I'll put a crimper like the one you suggest on my wish list, but, since I 
just bought the TMV71A, the wish list will have to be put on hold for a 
while.

But, it's always nice to have future goals or purchases in mind.

73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Forst" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: crimping verses solder


> Hi tom,
>
> And as has been said, there is something to be said for buying pre-made
> cables.   In fact I had mentioned that in a private e-mail to Gery, who 
> had
> started this thread a few days ago.    of course you are still taking a
> chance.  HRO sells a lot of pre-mades from Cable-Xperts, and while I don't
> take the E-ham reviews as gospel, there seems to be  quite a few unhappy
> hams who bought  that product.
>
> A few years ago I redid the whole station with a few hundred ft of Davis 
> RF
> Bury Flex  low los coax.    Had a number of custom lengths made up by the
> Wire Man in SC with pl-259's soldered.  Very happy with the results.
>
> But I still want to fix things and  make other cables as needed, so in 
> comes
> the crimper.
>
>
> The one I got from the RF Connection was $37.50.  Nice to deal with.  Even
> told me to call and he would talk me through if I ran into trouble, but I
> didn't.  You can spen more money and get higher quality tools or ones that
> do more than just RG8 type.   This is for the odd crimp at the odd time 
> and
> I'm not going to be doing dozens of crimps a week for the next 5 years. 
> So
> it suits my needs fine.
>
> 73, Steve KW3A