[Repeater-Builder] Connectors and Adapters above 500 MHz

Hi Bruce, Both really... I've seen demos of both... My first clue was a Watt Meter on an 800 MHz Micor Repeater circa 1980's. The meter was reading kind of crazy with a right-angle N used because of restricted space. In walked a friend and fellow ham with a square body right-angle N ra

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Connectors and Adapters above 500 MHz

I have told this one several times before, but one night we were servicing a 250 watt Glenayere 900 Mhz paging station and all we had was UHF connectors on the Bird 43. Bubba grabbed a hand full of adaptors and lashed the thing up. Shortly after keying up smoke started coming out of the adaptors.