On 4/18/2019 1:23 PM, Jim Brown wrote:

> Yes. That's always been their correct name. Because of their relatively
> large footprint as compared to modern connectors, they are used
> primarily on legacy equipment. I have several '70s and '80s vintage
> "brick" amps for 2M and 440 MHz that use them.

I like them because I can get my arthritic hands around them and in the
days when a soldering iron was not a "weapon of mass destruction" in my
hands they were so easy to solder wires to.--

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402

>From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon
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