MLA 30 Plus – SMA socket

I’ll skip the first steps, because I had already described them in the instructions for the BNC socket. You can read that here: http://mini-whip.de/2021/04/08/mla-30-plus-bnc-buchse/

• I stripped the cable a few cm, almost as long as the SMA socket is.
• Now I have bent the outer conductor backwards.
• Then I soldered the inner conductor.

• Since I decided to use the crimp variant of the SMA socket, I now have to pull the heat shrink tubing and crimp sleeve onto the cable

• Now the inner conductor can be inserted.
• Next, the outer conductor must be bent forward again and the crimp sleeve put on.

• Now the connector can be crimped.

• The whole thing should then look like this.

• Finally, I pulled a heat shrink tube over the connection.

• It should then look like this.

• Finally I glued the bushing and the screws for the loop with epoxy.
• Before that, I roughened the areas with a file so that the epoxy would sit better.

• The last thing to do is to fold the cable and close the lid.
• I left the cable extra longer in case I still want to make adjustments.