Re: So-called "UHF" connectors...

Posted by k6dgw on Jul 22, 2010; 11:14pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/So-called-UHF-connectors-tp5326419p5327685.html

Tom W8JI wrote:
>> inside....but I do think that the issue with standard "mud" type UHFs is
>> with the durability of the dielectric, not with the impedance bump, at
>> HF and even low VHF frequencies.

A long time ago, the USAF told me that N-connectors, when screwed down
tightly [with fingers, not tools] were essentially weather-proof.  I
don't think that included immersion.  Once saw a PL-259 in northern AK
that was split open ... I guess water got into it and it froze [happens
around the Arctic Circle :-)]

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2010 Cal QSO Party 2-3 Oct 2010
- www.cqp.org
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