I Toured ABR Industries New Production Facility!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- Inside ABR Industries New Production Facility In Houston, Texas, Owner Shannon Gives Us A Tour And Shows How They Assemble Their Coaxial Cable.
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ABR is my go to coax.
I just ordered a 3 foot jumper cable. It's actually gonna be custom made. Hey, thank you, folks glad I found you.73
Thanks for the factory tour and discount code! I ordered some new coax (all with five ferrite beads in-line) to pair with my new HF QRP Setup! It consists of a Lab599 TX-500, Chameleon MPAS 2.0, Elecraft T1 Automatic Antenna Tuner, CHUWI Windows 11 Tablet and a Digi-Rig for portable EMCOMM's. Combined they completely obliterated my 'Ham Radio Funds' for 2023! At least I spent all that overtime money on some killer kit! LOL
So nice for them to be out of the old, unairconditioned warehouse. Congrats ABR!
Terrific, Mike! Let's watch for the time that ABR goes public and invest in the stock. Impressive operation . My next coax purchase will be with ABR.
lol right?
What a cool little company! Since they're in Texas, I'm going to be ordering all my coax from them here on out. Thank you for taking the time to introduce us to them!
My pleasure. I know you will not only enjoy your coax, but more importantly you’ll enjoy dealing with them.
Great company. I have 3 240 ultraflex cables from them and the quality is excellent
Mark, Thanks for the tour, very interesting. You may not have filmed this part, but from you showed, after crimping and heat shrinking, it goes straight to shipping That made me pause a bit: Does ABR not test the cable after manufacturing it before shipping. I would expect at least a basic continuity, shorting, impedance and TDR test to test the integrity of the piece they just manufactured. Maybe, they just do random sample testing and not every piece? Gives me pause about ordering an relatively expensive cable from them. I don't mind paying the extra for Q only if there is good evidence of it, and not having testing fails that gate IMHO.
I met them at winterfest. Bravo
Love ABR!
Wow! Great video tour. Thanks Mike. And thanks ABR! I love my ABR cables. In fact, I ordered some today. I'm getting ready for QuartzFest and I seem to have misplaced one of my V/U SO/PL extension cables. I'll keep looking, but I don't feel lucky today. So I ordered a replacement just in case. ~KC9AD
Shannon is FANTASTIC!!! I made an order after your first video & spoke with her! Literally as they were about to move in to this new location. Great customer service!!! Thanks for doing an updated video!!!
Wonderful!
Enjoyed the video. She is clearly pleased with the HVAC. Just bought a pair of cables for my QRP radios.
Texas heat with no AC is not something anyone should have to deal with.
Cool tour
Thank you for the tour Mike and ABR Industries
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I bought some coax from them back during covid and picked it up at the old place. Shannon chatted with me taking the order and brought my cable out to my car when I picked it up. I don't need much coax but I'll get it all from them when I do.
What a fabulous tour! Thanks, Mike!
My pleasure!
I was fortunate to get abr coax from my earliest HF days. When I got (and returned) the cheaper stuff I was 😮. I ordered custom lengths of the white 195 uf and painted it to match the condo. No complaints!
Shannon is so awesome to deal with. Awesome company.
Great people to deal with at ABR!
They were going to move to a place near the Katy Freeway and the West Belt.
They're somewhere out there now. I just don't know where I am in TX yet!
What? They’re are literally 10min items south of me!! That’s awesome!!!
10 minutes?!? I had to drive an hour and twenty minutes! Still awesome to have a great company so close.
@@hamradiotube Yes sir! I wonder if they allow order pickup? I’d just love to shake their hands and thank them for their work!
Great video Mike. Just ordered a 316 cable with 5 ferrites to try to help with noise on my mobile ft-891 rig.
Damn Mike! That was one hell of an interesting video! Thanks for helping the dwindling radio fund! 73, de NH7TR
30K subs awesome! Thanks for the ABR facility video!
Hey hey thanks so much man! What a milestone to hit for sure.
Good solid American Company. Thanks for doing the video!
When is the finished cable tested for continuity and shorts?
In my other video at their old factory I showed that. They have some continuity tester thing.
Very nice - thank you for the tour! I worked in wire and cable extrusion and harness assembly for many years and it's fantastic to see y'all making these here in the USA. Nice equipment - Schleuniger - the Cadillac of cable processing equipment. Well done folks - I buy ABR whenever I need new cables. W7PMR
Great video and they seem like great people!
Awesome Video. Is it better to put the choke and the antenna or radio end. Thanks. Denis. VA3DCB.
Great video. Did you notice any Hi-POT testing done after the cables were assembled?
Given that I can rely on Shannon for top notch customer service which ranks high in my must haves. Will likely buy something just as a excuse to visit the new facility.
Whats your recommendation for a pota cable configuration?
how about a review of their new POTA coax? N4TRD
ABR doesn't have a POTA cable. M&P does though. th-cam.com/video/6bYLdHLaVqM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=JXrtpdLY9Ce-Zl1N
@@hamradiotube I saw a POTA cable listed???
I can't find the ferrite chokes on the webpage
Go to the coax builder on their website. Select your coax, connector types, then scroll to the bottom where it says ferrite. If that doesn’t work, just give them a call. They will most certainly guide you to what you need.
I literally tried to use that coupon code earlier this week and it said expired code…
Yeah we’ve been working on that. Use the link in the description. You may need to use code K8MRD10. But…if all else fails, just call them and mention k8mrd. They will take care of you, I promise.
This is such an AWESOME Company. Thanks for the video Mike @K8MRD
Hey! Which cable do you get from them? Thx ! Brian WB8AM
Umm, I didn't get anything from them. I toured the factory. BUT, I do have their ABR-400UF and their ABR-240F
@@hamradiotube RRR, I figured you already had some cables. I already wrote them about making a ferrite adapter. Chuck replied and said that the 400 can handle full legal power but the 316 goes to 100W. Imma gonna write back to ask about the thickness of the ferrites and typical length for adapters. 73, and thanks for the vid.
@@hamradiotube You also have one of their chokes 😉
ABR-240uf how much power will it take? I use it on vhf 6meter bandwidth. 73 AE4OY WILLIE PEACOCK EM-81UF
Good stuff!
Great video. FYI - Just went to the ABR is order some new coax because of you video. According to there order page the K8MRD coupon code as expired. Just wanted to keep you current.
Thanks
Paul K5CIP
Yeah we're working on a new system to get it working. The link in the description will take you there but here it is. abrind.com/?sld=2 Use code K8MRD10.
@@hamradiotube Coupon code worked ok for me.
Too late, K8MRD already converted everyone to M & P
Well to be fair, we have multiple radios for multiple reasons. Shouldn’t we have multiple coax runs for multiple reasons?
@@hamradiotube I like the colored wraps and the labeling options - could be very useful when working around others.