-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of skipp025 Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 12:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: LMR feedline revisited and revised! Ditto! "Engineer-X" has his pooky in a pile and I trust his analysis.... not to mention I verified a lot of his work.
No desire to debate the issue either... 73 Mike Perryman www.k5jmp.us A very interesting read... however, I have a good friend... one of the best RF Engineers I've ever met. Former HP to Aglient guy now working for another big name company doing serious rf and lightwave work. He took some time to out to run through various rf connectors on the companies very high-end test equipment. Something he does at/for his job all the time. A very quick summary of the end results... PL-259 Connectors are not really the UHF horror story people might assume. A sidebar... I didn't see any mention of Epoxy dilectric type PL-259 connectors. If you search the yahoo rfamplifiers group a year or two back... you can find his post in one of the more interesting threads. I don't have the time, nor do I care to debate the subject... but I do agree with my friends testing. Sure there are much better UHF connectors available... but using a good quality PL-250 in the lower UHF Range is really no big deal. cheers, skipp
