Homemade cables

[sfbaby1982]

Hey all,

My team is looking for ways to relocate the antenna's via cables around their body kit for the MBITR's. We have had limited long term success with standard commercial connectors and RG58 Coax cable. The problem is that the connectors aren't made for the military environment and bending and flexing takes their tole. Sometimes I end up at night remaking 3 or 4 cables, every night! I'm looking for any ideas on ways to improve these connections through readily available commercial products or military specific products that can be purchased on a teams budget.

My idea is to use superglue under the crip sleeve, not in a quantity that would block the negative connection but would provied some antislip properties. My next thought was to overlap this with a piece of shrink wrap followed by a spring that was roughly 1 and 1/2" long and slightly larger than the RG58 cable covernig that in another sleeve of heat shrink tubing. The weaknesses that I can forsee would be the connector pulling out but I figure that could be defeated by putting a small depression in the crimp sleeve with a nail or small punch, just enough to penetrate the outer sleeve of the coax. Any thoughts.

R

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