[Elecraft] Connectors

[Paul Dluehosh]

I try to also use only Amphenol (PL-259) connectors. While new Amphenol 
connectors, like everything else, keep getting more expensive, I find 
that used Amphenol connectors can usually be found at hamfests (remember 
them?) either as new-old-stock or having been cut off the end of an old 
cable. It may take a little work to clean up a connector with the stub 
of a coax cable in it, but usually the cost is low and you still end up 
with a real Amphenol connector. They may look ugly with a black patina, 
but that may be because they have real silver plating.

73,
Paul — N4PD
/Radio.N4PD at gmail.com/

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On 07/12/2021 12:51, William Levy wrote:
> I buy Amphenol connectors. I have for 60 years. They don't fail me.
> I buy better coax and hard line. Great radios.
>
> You get what you pay for.
>
> If you can't afford it don't buy cheap. Wait until your budget allows.
>
> An old boy used to laugh at me always buying 20 dollar SWR meters.
> He told me to stop doing that and go buy a Bird for $ 125. He told me I
> would anyway and why waste my money on the cheap stuff that would fail me.
>
> Just my two cents.
> Bill N2WL
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