[Elecraft] rf probe

[Matt Osborn]

I find that the shield is not particularly flexible and soon breaks
and unravels. With RG-174, just cut the shield back, leaving approx.
1/16" exposed beyond the outer wrapper. Wrap a flexible piece of
stranded hookup wire around the exposed shield and solder it to the
shield.   Cover the exposed shield/solder joint with some shrink
tubing and solder the other end of the hookup wire to wherever its
going.

Hookup wire survives flexing much better than the cable shield.



On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:43:09 -0700, "Jesse & Nicky"
<nicky_jesse at verizon.net> wrote:

>I guess I am missing something here.  Why do the banana plugs have to be connected with rg 174 coax ??
>
>If I have to use coax is there a "trick" to unraveling the braid ??
>I cannot seem to get the tips of the banana plugs to accept solder.
>
>As always, any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.