[Elecraft] FW: Proper installation of PL 259's

[Tommy]

Hey ya 'young whippersnapper' calm down some? If you want to know 'stuff'
about Elecraft equipment, this IS the place. If you want to know something
about antennas/feed lines, try  www.towertalk.com  which is the correct
place for this PL259 thread in the first place. If you don't know where to
look for information, ASK! But just about every time someone says "How do
you........" there are typically 30 to 100 responses of 'how I do it',
nothing related to Elecraft equipment. I'm sure the Elecraft reflector
moderator does not really have the time to stop these type threads every
time they get started simply because he is off helping make a company run. 

Tom - W4BQF (no longer a 'young whippersnapper')



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Frank Precissi
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 12:28 AM
To: Elecraft Group
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] FW: Proper installation of PL 259's

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Dr. William J. Schmidt, II <
bill at wjschmidt.com> wrote:

> So far I've counted 96 posts on soldering connectors onto coax.  Really?


Yeah, really.

A lot of people take really common stuff for granted, like soldering
connectors onto coax.  For those of us who don't have decades of
experience/mistakes under their belt (and who got their ticket in the era of
the internet and pre-made coax), small things like this (which have big
impacts) are lost to convenience.

For every person like me who freely admits that I dont know the correct way
to solder a PL-259 and thought pre-made was 'good enough', there are
probably 10 who are too afraid to come forward to admit it.  You should be
happy that some of us /want/ to make their own coax instead of the premade
stuff.  Isn't that keeping a little part of the 'real' hobby alive.

I'll get off your lawn now.  Im just a young whippersnapper.

Frank
KG6EYC

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