Jack,
When a dropping the pigtail off the desk breaks the connection to the
N-Femail connector, that is just not acceptable.
SWR should be low if loss is low, but, I have a pigtail here that is
asymmetrical more loss on tx than on rx.In my experience, at
lower frequencies, that is a
Jack,
For myself, loss, physical integrity and possibly swr.
Others might have other things to add.
My own testing here with a repeatable lash up of my own devising has
shown some pigtails being 12db! down from apparently identical
pigtails.
While I can not be sure of the absolute l