OK, a couple of weird questions.
1) What kind of problems would I run into if I connected my LMR400 cable to a BNC chassis mount? I would be soldering it on....
2) Still using the LMR400, say I made one of the homemade ground plane antennas out of a SO-259 chassis mount, could I directly connect (again with solder) the cable to the SO-259 connector?
I guess I am concerned with loss here...
Can any antenna/cable gurus tell me why I would not want to do this?
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How about this... Say I had a short RG58 patch cord with a BNC connector on one end and nothing on the other, could I just solder the center wire of this to the center wire of my LMR400 and then solder the braided shields together. AND can the braided shields be bunched and twisted together like you would with 2 pieces of wire? And then lets say you enclosed this mess in one of those metal project boxes from Radio Shack and screwed it to the underside of a desk, LMR400 goes in, RG58 comes out...
I have spliced my cable TV coax this way, twisted the center wires then the braids together, no solder just some tape. Worked fine nice clear picture....
1) What kind of problems would I run into if I connected my LMR400 cable to a BNC chassis mount? I would be soldering it on....
2) Still using the LMR400, say I made one of the homemade ground plane antennas out of a SO-259 chassis mount, could I directly connect (again with solder) the cable to the SO-259 connector?
I guess I am concerned with loss here...
Can any antenna/cable gurus tell me why I would not want to do this?
EDIT:
How about this... Say I had a short RG58 patch cord with a BNC connector on one end and nothing on the other, could I just solder the center wire of this to the center wire of my LMR400 and then solder the braided shields together. AND can the braided shields be bunched and twisted together like you would with 2 pieces of wire? And then lets say you enclosed this mess in one of those metal project boxes from Radio Shack and screwed it to the underside of a desk, LMR400 goes in, RG58 comes out...
I have spliced my cable TV coax this way, twisted the center wires then the braids together, no solder just some tape. Worked fine nice clear picture....
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