PL-259's as long as you have real silver/teflon are not that bad. Probably even the old Amphenols with that compressed cornflake looking stuff, phenolic maybe? were not that bad. The thing you have to watch out for is mystery dielectric. It melts when you solder to it and it heats up with as little as 25 watts. When it heats up, that is power lost. It looks like teflon, but its not.
Also, I had a type N connector mode pretty bad at around 6 gHz in the middle of an antenna project some years ago. It was a Kings E/U suffix. Sort of blew my faith in the 11 gHz myth, er spec. td wb6mie > > >doesn't make it right though considering the potentual losses. > > > > <---Psssst...don't tell anyone but a PL259 ain't as horrible (loss > > wise at least) at VHF & UHF as "folklore" would have you believe. The > > real issue is not of loss but rather that of a PL259 not being a > > constant impedance connector. This is where BNC's and N's shine. _________________________________________________________________ Watch free concerts with Pink, Rod Stewart, Oasis and more. Visit MSN Presents today. http://music.msn.com/presents?icid=ncmsnpresentstagline&ocid=T002MSN03A07001
