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JOn wrote:
>I never did like SMA jacks, I've never broken one myself, but I
>know a lot of people who have, if you change antennas a lot, or
>really much at all, they just can't take it. A drop, they can't
>really take, give me a sell installed BNC connector any day though
DItto here! I had the same thing happen with my Kenwood 71a handheld,
now I won't connect anything but a rubber duck to an sma connector.
I knew I didn't like them when I first saw them.
Even most BNC connectors on handhelds are not made to hang a lot of
weight from. Be sure if you use an ht for base/mobile work with an
antenna and some coax that you support the weight of the coax
elsewhere than the radio's chassis. It's just not designed for it.
I had an htx-202 rat shack that I used to use as a base with an
amplifier. Even with the radio sitting on a little stand I made
connected to speaker mike and power as well as the antenna the bnc
connector failed prematurely and had to be replaced. STill in my not
so humble opiinion a bnc is a much more robust connector than the sma.
73 de nf5b
Richard Webb
Electric Spider Productions
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
--- Benjamin Franklin, NOvember 1755 from the
Historical review of Pennsylvania
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