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

[Edward R Cole]

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

Dr. William J. Schmidt - K9HZ / J68HZ/ 8P6HK/ ZF2HZ
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Yep!  What I have found is the three most asked "technical" questions 
by (beginning) hams are:
1)  How do I program my HT?
2)  How do you make antennas?
3)  How do you put connectors on coax?

Note the non-specific nature of the questions.  A lot has changed 
since I became a new ham (1958):
Radio kits are almost non-existent; my first radio was a kit and I 
taught myself how to solder (no elmer).

People do not look up things in books - just google it or "better" 
just ask someone  All my early knowledge came from ARRL publications 
which I read cover-to-cover many times (because as kid I had no money 
to buy anything; nearest ham was in the next town and I did not drive 
until age 16).

(today) If you want it just buy it.  That was not true for a lot of 
ham radio stuff back in the "day"!  There was more building.

Today's beginning ham is coming from a very different experience; 
usually computer and smart phone wise.  Computers occupied whole 
buildings when I was a boy.  In college one only had mechanical 
calculation (pencil or slide rule) and had to punch IBM cards at the 
computing center to use a computer (If you were lucky to have a 
programming class or were a graduate student with a research project)

When I began college, the typical HS graduation present was a 
typewriter - today it is either a laptop or tablet.

My first antenna was a 40m folded dipole made from TV twinlead (Huh? 
what's dat?).  I soldered the PL-259 directly onto the twinlead  to 
connect to my transmitter which loaded it just fine (6146 with pi-network).

Reality - It is what it is!  (yeah an old ham)
<bleep> Now back to the present!

73, Ed - KL7UW
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