Hi Bruce, Both really...
I've seen demos of both... My first clue was a Watt Meter on an 800 MHz Micor Repeater circa 1980's. The meter was reading kind of crazy with a right-angle N used because of restricted space. In walked a friend and fellow ham with a square body right-angle N rated and spec'd for operation well past the 800 MHz band (Hello Paul... I know you read this group). I/we only changed the right angle N out and the meter started to read as I/we would expect. Internal to many of the round body right-angle's is a spring contact and some have a not so hot screw in setup. Both are very nasty at 800 MHz. Never thought to really get into checking connectors and adapters until that point in time. Now I trust no coax connector (and cable) until I've first checked it... There are good and bad Square Body Right-Angle N's so don't trust anything until you've first checked it at the desired frequency of operation. No one was thinking 800 MHz when some of the low cost round body right-angles were made for the HF Band gang. As we rise above the VHF Band the "no free lunch rule" applies to most things we don't pay close attention to... cheers, skipp > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Are they consistently bad news or does the Z bump vary from > connector to connector? > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > The nightmare begins at 800MHz when you realize many of the > > coax adapters and right-angles are really, really bad news.
