Mike — if it’s RG58 cable, try one of these Shakespeare solderless butt splices:
http://www.defender.com/product3.jsp?path=-1|344|2028695|2029069&id=181454 That should do the trick. Fred Street -- Minneapolis S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^( On Sep 3, 2014, at 12:20 PM, Hoyt, Mike via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Our new to us boat came with a Furuno GP31 GPS and external antenna with > the GPS mounted in Nav Station. Helm had a much newer Garmin 740. We > decided to replace Furuno with a new Raymarine MFD chartplotter at Nav > Station. The antenna was still in place. > > I had posted the Furuno on Kijiji and have an interested buyer. > Unfortunately now that we have a liveable interior we also have > headliners etc which are one of the biggest curses on a sailboat. While > attempting to remove the Antenna I had the cable removed for about half > its length after removing way to many access panels but it was stuck > somewhere in the nether reaches of the boat. One slightly too > aggressive tug and I now have an antenna with two pieces of cable (much > easier to remove by the way). > > So I have been reading about splicing GPS antenna cables. This one is > Coax style and there has been a lot of information that BNC ends and a > barrel connector will work. Does anyone (especially Fred) have > experience and advice on this? I think I may have just reduced my > selling price to zero and may be making a gift of the unit to the > potential buyer > > Mike
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