When I retired, I began learning how to cook so I could make dinner a couple nights each week. There are many web sites with recipes, I use AllRecipes most of the time. It has a provision for people to rate the recipes. For a recipe with 100 ratings, most will be high and comments speak highly of it. Some of the comments will tell you the same recipe is totally rotten and results in inedible food.

So it goes with APP's. This subject returns to the list periodically just like a short-period comet. We should go into the list archive and give each of the APP comments a code number. Then, when the comet returns, we could save all those keystrokes by just using the number, since the comments really never change.

My opinion on APP's is 34G: They work fine, I've never had a connection dislodge. :-)

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 50th Running of the Cal QSO Party 3-4 Oct 2015
- www.cqp.org

On 2/17/2015 7:09 AM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
Chris,

This subject does come up from time to time, and the most common cause
for weak APP connectors is due to improper assembly.
Look in the end of your APP connectors.  If you can see the tip of the
spring that is supposed to lock the connection blades in place, you have
not properly latched the connection blades in place.
Push on the back of the connector blade until it latches over the end of
the spring.  It may take a goodly amount of force.

Properly assembled APP connectors normally have sufficient pull-out
resistance for all but the most unusual forces.

73,
Don W3FPR

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