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Subject: Re: [motm] VCO calibration nightmare

From: Thomas Hudson <thudson@...>
Date: 2000-07-06

Charles Stella wrote:
>
> If you have a vise to hold the connector steady it helps. Tin your bare
> cable ends. Heat the U shaped ground sleeve a bit and put a little pool
> of solder there. Tin the tip connector as well. Solder the ground of
> your cable to the sleeve. Once it is cool and stable solder the tip. I
> hope this helps. Charles.
>
Are you soldering the shield to the inside or outside of the U shaped
ground sleeve? When I solder to the outside I have trouble getting it
thin enough to slip the outside sleeve over it.

Tomy