At 3/23/2007 13:25, you wrote: >Also, I had a type N connector mode pretty bad at around 6 gHz in the middle >of an antenna project some years ago. It was a Kings E/U suffix. Sort of >blew my faith in the 11 gHz myth, er spec. > >td >wb6mie
We had some N connectors rated for 18 GHz that I once used on solid .141" dia. semirigid. At first I noticed a nasty resonance just above 1 GHz, but found that it went away when I tightened the connector a bit further. The 18 GHz male Ns don't use a segmented or "springy" outer conductor, but instead have a solid shield ring that likely requires a more precise female mating connector, & in this case there was probably a gap somewhere along the ring, which the additional mating force eliminated. Bob NO6B
