Best Place To Buy Coax

[Cajun Invader]

I'm looking for the best place to buy some Belden RG213 Poly with the pl's attached. I'm looking for some 3ft and 6ft sections right now.

I'm tired of second guessing if I have a bad jumper or something else is causing some of my problems so I would like to find a place where the jumpers are tested and guaranteed.

I find a link once to a group of Hams that did it but for the life of me I can't locate it now.

 

[WX2MIG]

I'm looking for the best place to buy some Belden RG213 Poly with the pl's attached. I'm looking for some 3ft and 6ft sections right now.

I'm tired of second guessing if I have a bad jumper or something else is causing some of my problems so I would like to find a place where the jumpers are tested and guaranteed.

I find a link once to a group of Hams that did it but for the life of me I can't locate it now.

I always make up my own, then test them for shorts and continuity with an ohm meter, but if you prefer to buy factory made, you might try....

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[W5LZ]

Cajun',
Pick a supplier of coax and other radio products that's well known and that offer premade coaxial cables of the brand/type that you want. Most places are going to be of the same 'quality'. I don't think I would trust any seller that 'guaranties' coax jumpers for anything except their construction practices, how would they know what they would be used for and if they were suitable?
I have to agree with 'MIG', I'd rather make my own. As long as the coax and connectors are of a good, reputable brand, and you are reasonably careful, they ought'a work just fine. Jumpers get blamed for a lot of things that they are not guilty of, in most instances, they are not even related to the problem.
Don't want to make them yourself? That's fine, don't. But shop for them like you would anything else. That 'reputable dealer' thingy is a biggy. So are brands/types of coax and connectors. After that, whatever 'grabs' you...
- 'Doc

 

[Cat Driver]

Universal Radio or Texas Towers makes'em


Ron
ol'fart

 

[Cajun Invader]

Thanks for all the links and information.

It's not about me making my own jumpers, I can do that. It's about me removing myself as a variable in the equazion.

It's an OCD thing.

 

[6 Meters Rules]

Well , I Have too Say , I Personally Make ALL! My Own & Have Never Had A Problem! & I Can Run 1500 + Through Mine All Day Long , 500 on 2 Meters Its A OCD Thing !

 

[Cat Driver]

I'd trust mine before I would theirs.... They don't pay $30-40 per hour techs to make jumpers, they are made by the cheap azz $7-8 hour guys that really don't give a flying rats azz if they are right or not.

 

[hotrod]

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