Chris, In my experience with swaged hardware, especially when used in your frequency range, they should be soldered. I work with RF in that range in low wattage (5-50) and if they are not soldered and become loose, it's a nightmare to troubleshoot. Just swaging is not enough. eventually, they will come loose as the fiberglass board compresses. Tom Parkinson WinTronics, Inc. Chris Stack wrote: > > I need some advice about swaging connector pins. After they are swaged, is > soldering still neccessary or will clamping down on the pad make an > acceptable solder joint? The circuits they will be in are in the 450MHz - > 1GHz range. > > Thanks For your help. > > Chris > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d > To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in > the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet > To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send the following message: SET Technet NOMAIL > Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives > Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional > information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send the following message: SET Technet NOMAIL Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------