Wunder, I'll second you on that! Of all the 1000's of RF connectors I've assembled and used over the years for my own hobby and at work. The venerable "UHF" series have always proved to be the nastiest most unreliable types ever. Period.
All my own personal radio kit, either get's them replaced (Sadly, not always an easy job) with a N or BNC (in one case, a TNC.) Or a BNC (or N) adapter is securely fitted as a permanent fixture (including LocTite on the threads, in mobile/portable situations!) I also use BNC's at HF, as we do at work. They can happily carry well over 150W at up to 220MHz even in the presence of some very bad VSWR's (6:1 or higher.) Assemble them correctly and look after them physically, and they will last a lifetime. The UHF series are just plain unreliable. It is no surprise that the military (NATO) don't use them any more. 73. Dave G0WBX (also G8KBV) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 18/09/18 19:45, [email protected] wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 16:45:10 -0700 > From: Walter Underwood <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] loss of RX sensitivity > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > The next time someone challenges me on why I only use BNC and Type N > connectors, I?m going to send them this entire discussion. > > wunder > K6WRU > Walter Underwood > CM87wj > http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) -- Created on and sent from a Unix like PC running and using free and open source software. :: ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
