Tried soldering a connector instead of crimping it, and the signal test scared me straight

Jana Ward · 2026-09-22T15:55:04.774485+00:00

I soldered one F connector on a job in Mesa last week just to see if it beat crimping, and the picture looked fine but my meter read 8 dB of loss I could not explain, so now I am wondering if anyone else has tried this and gotten a weird result too.

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