Larry, To the best of my knowledge, I cannot recall an offi-cial warning from Flex.Radio against the use of gold-plated plugs. In contrary, these were praised many times as problem solvers on the forum and reflector without objections. Anyhow, they solved my problems and twisting is now done only on dance floors. To avoid the introduction of new problems, I mentioned the required enlargement of the connector admission holes when using gold-plated plugs.
vy 73 es best dx de SM6OMH Willi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Loen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Willi Reppel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Jeff Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mike King - KM0T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'FlexRadio Mailing List'" <FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 3:33 PM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Poor sideband suppression > Willi Reppel wrote: > >>Jeff, >> >>One possible cure to avoid said jiggling and twisting of the plugs is to >>drill larger holes into the backplate of the SDR1000 enclosure. The >>relatively small holes may prevent certain types of male plugs to reach >>the bottom of the female connectors. Gold-plated plugs here in the old >>countries have normally a larger diameter than the holes. Also, the holes >>in the cabinet may not be con-centric with the rings of the female >>connectors of the board stack and the larger holes I drilled make sure >>that the plugs are properly seated. No more jiggling here since a long >>time ago. >> >>73 es gl >>SM6OMH Willi >> >> > > IIRC, actually, gold plugs are NOT recommended for this product precisely > because they are oversized. > > > Larry WO0Z > > > > > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
