{"id":64,"date":"2025-03-09T03:16:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T03:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2025-03-09T03:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T03:16:18","slug":"feedline-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/feedline-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Feedline hell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think I&#8217;ve soldered my last PL-259. They are my single greatest cause of failure.  Over the past month or two, I&#8217;ve soldered up a couple of new cables and re-did a couple. I got some of them right and some wrong. I&#8217;ve been doing this for over 30 years and I still make too many mistakes. Either I don&#8217;t get the solder hot enough to flow properly or (since I started using a hotter Iron) I melt the dialetric and jacket right onto connector, ruining a perfectly good plug. Soldering SMD is easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From now on, it&#8217;s crimp or go home. Either that, or I&#8217;ll buy them pre-made. I&#8217;ll solder the center pin but anything else is getting sqeezed. I have good ethernet and mini-UHF crimpers so I know this tool will cost at least $30 but will be well worth it. There&#8217;s nothing that soldering will give me that a good crimp can&#8217;t. I enjoy working with a soldering iron but I&#8217;ll keep it handy for the things I do well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve soldered my last PL-259. They are my single greatest cause of failure. Over the past month or two, I&#8217;ve soldered up a couple of new cables and re-did a couple. I got some of them right and some wrong. I&#8217;ve been doing this for over 30 years and I still make too&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/n0xmz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}