I don't know, you ask different people and some say crimp is just as good as
solder for the power levels we run, almost all commercial radio
installations use crimp connectors when it comes to 2-way. My personal
opinion, I've come across some crap when it comes to connector installs and
I'll take a good crimp connector, which is very easy, any day over a crap
soldered connector which is more common than ones done right. I've done both
and I don't see any quality difference. You have to figure, other than
PL-259's, most other common connectors are either crimp, compression, the
ones that screw together to clamp the shield, and you can't tell me that's
any better or worse than crimp so I personally say the theory that soldered
is so much better is a bunch of crap. JMO but after seeing so much crap work
with soldered ones, no thanks I much prefer a well crimped one. I use both
depending on what I have handy. Crimp isn't that much more expensive if you
know where to look, they used to be but I don't think that's as much the
case as it used to be.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2014 12:45 AM
Subject: Re: West Mountain Crimping Tool and Coax?
> yup, but you have to use crimp on connecters which can be a pain and a bit
> unreliable as compared with soldered coaxial connecters.
> However, for a blind guy, they are great if you aren't comfortable with
> soldering.
> The different coax size dies make it a snap each time, and the crimping
> tool
> is ratcheted so it makes the crimping easy too.
> Buy the cutting and stripping tool as well as this makes the entire
> process
> really simple.
> It is set up to strip the outer jacket, and center conducter the precise
> amount to fit into the pieces of the crimp on connecter.
> A bit of out lay of cash for the entire kit, and the connecters aren't
> cheap
> either, but certainly the way to go if your not comfortable with
> soldering.
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Dave Basden" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 6:47 PM
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: West Mountain Crimping Tool and Coax?
>
>> I saw a die set on the West Mountain Radio website that sounded like
>> it makes the crimping tool work with various sizes of coax
>> connectors. Does anyone know anything about this? If so, it would
>> make doing coax connectors pretty easy.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Dave, W7OQ
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