This is interesting. I remember when I put up my first tower. I was on a
budget. I had good coax for my VHF antenna. Then, I picked up 100-feet
from Radio Shack for my junior tribander.
The first or second day, I was working a JA on 20-meters. All of a sudden,
the signals dropped, and my SWR jumped. I went out and someone told me it
looked like the coax had come off of the tribander.
I don't know if I had enough of a loop on it or what, but the damn crimp-on
connector was living in the driven element and the coax was just hanging
there. Had to untape the cables, take that one down and resolder it to a
real connector and bring it up the next day.
Now, I just feel uncomfortable using crimped coax. But, if that is what LMR
recommends, then I hope they have better crimp-on connectors.
Steve, K8SP
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan R. Downing" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2014 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: West Mountain Crimping Tool and Coax?
> Colin, none of the LMR series of coax are supposed to be soldered. I buy
> a
> ton of connectors for LMR240, LMR400, LMR600, and LMR900, and not a single
> one of them is soldered. Times Micro, the maker of LMR coax, wants their
> connectors to be crimped on. I own a whole bunch of special prep and
> crimping tools specifically for the different sizes of LMR coax, because
> the
> connectors have to be crimped.
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