Re: Why would anyone pay £4.50 for a patch lead?

I buy W H Westlake's BNC - BNC and N - N made-up cables because they come with a nice strain-relief bush and are cheaper than home-constructed.

I enjoy construction, be it a short length of cable or a 10 GHz transverter, but I pay due attention to what is available commercially. I don't wrap my own capacitors or wind my own inductors. Generally, if it's below a GHz, it's cheaper to buy commercially: a crimp tool is a negligible investment for someone like Westlake, who makes hundreds if not thousands of terminated cables a week, but is expensive if you want to make up one cable.

Everyone ought to know how to terminate a bit of coax (except M3's, poor things, who aren't allowed to construct - surely the daftest bit of legislation ever, which almost obliges them to be multiband CB'ers - it's not their fault), but everyone is also entitled to pay attention to their wallet.

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