> SO-239 / PL-259" connectors are not suitable. WRONG! This is another myth, repeated and repeated until it becomes accepted. This is HF, not UHF. The impedance of the connector only matters when the frequency is high enough that the length of the transmission line that the connector comprises is a significant fraction of a wavelength. Good quality UHF connectors (PL-259 and SO-239) are more than adequate for anything we do on the HF and VHF bands. We need to worry about the impedance of the connector at UHF and above.
A brief anecdote. This spring, I made up a lot of RG8 cables for a DXpedition. As part of a final test, I hooked eleven 100 ft lengths in series and measured the loss. It was within measurement error of the specified loss of the cable up to 400 MHz. That was 22 PL-259s, 11 barrels, and two PL-259 to N adapters to get to the HP generator and HP spectrum analyzer that I used to measure it. 73, Jim Brown K9YC ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
