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Re: [TowerTalk] RG-6

To: "Tower and HF antenna construction topics." <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] RG-6
From: "hoth2o" <hoth2o@netecin.net>
Reply-to: "Tower and HF antenna construction topics." <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:44:42 -0700
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Barry,

If it is anything other than copper, I think you are SOL unless there is a 
mechanical connector for the braid.

Mike
W8TRN
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barrie Smith" <barrie@centric.net>
To: "Tower and HF antenna construction topics." <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 14:10
Subject: [TowerTalk] RG-6


>I recently purchased 200' of RG-6 from Lowes for a receiving antenna.
>
> The braid is real strange stuff.  Looks, act and feels like steel.  I 
> can't
> get ordinary, resin-core solder to attach at all.  The solder just beads 
> up
> and falls off.
>
> Any suggrstions as to how to solder this stuff?
>
> 73, Barrie, W7ALW
>
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