I added a couple more pictures of the connector after removing it from the housing.... I tired to get a better close up on the connector, but it's kind of blurry. After more research, it's an SMC F, female actually... I guess. I assumed male because of the pin inside the plastic / dielectric.
http://www.nc7j.com/downloads/NG7M/Time-Nuts/5817A-05Q/ Anyway, I found some good pictures of a possible replacement on flea/Bay/eBay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-2-ITT-050-045-0000-220-Conn-SMC-F-12-4GHz-50Ohm-Solder-Pot-ST-Pnl-Mnt-NEW-/271840415566?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f4af38f4e Look at the 4th picture. I'm kind of anal about fixing this kind of stuff, even if I end up going the 0 ohm jumper route and disable the power input to use power from the one of my GPS receivers. Thanks once again... I would have spent a lot more time on my own getting to the bottom of it. 73 de Max NG7M On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 12:25 PM, M. George <m.matthew.geo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for all the replies everyone, very helpful as usual. the links > that Oz posted seem to match up with the connector on my 5817a. > http://www.amphenolrf.com/media/wysiwyg/SMC_4.jpg Its the male side of a > SMC connector. > > I'll remove the broken one from the unit... take a few more pictures. All > the comments on bypassing the power input option were very helpful > too. i.e. the 05Q option. I figured that should be pretty easy where they > sold this unit without the external power option. > > Again, thanks for the detailed responses gents! > > Max NG7M > > On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Magnus Danielson < > mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote: > >> That is supposed to be an SMB connector, that is what I have on mine. >> >> You can drop in a 0-ohm so that you can feed it and the antenna from Port >> 1. It might be a quicker solution for you. >> >> Cheers, >> Magnus >> >> >> On 05/09/2015 02:27 PM, Bob Camp wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> Only going by the pictures, that looks like the remains of a broken SMB >>> connector. >>> >>> Bob >>> >>> On May 8, 2015, at 10:11 PM, M. George <m.matthew.geo...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I took delivery of a Symmetricom 5817A with the 05Q DC power option. >>>> The 8 >>>> port seems to be going a little less than the 4 ports... not sure on the >>>> reasoning there... however I picked it up on the usual auction site for >>>> ~125.00 shipped. I thought that was reasonable assuming it works. >>>> >>>> Anyway, I'm not too proud to admit that I'm not familiar with the power >>>> connector that apparently comes with the 05Q option. I have a link >>>> below >>>> to a couple of pictures. Maybe I missed something obvious when poking >>>> around on the internet for documentation, but I can't find anything that >>>> describes this connector. I assume it is stock? The +DC input pin/wire >>>> can be seen just inside the white tube... again, maybe this is obvious >>>> to >>>> real time-nuts! I'm working on that time-nut thing! >>>> >>>> You can browse to the pictures here: >>>> >>>> http://www.nc7j.com/downloads/NG7M/Time-Nuts/5817A-05Q/ >>>> >>>> Max NG7M >>>> -- >>>> M. George >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >>>> To unsubscribe, go to >>>> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >>>> and follow the instructions there. >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >>> To unsubscribe, go to >>> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >>> and follow the instructions there. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >> To unsubscribe, go to >> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >> and follow the instructions there. >> > > > > -- > M. George > -- M. George _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.