Similar bad experience with "T" UHF connectors. With minimal strain, the
connector will separate.
73 Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim White, K4OJ" <k4oj@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 3:10 PM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Beware those Radio Shack right angle connectors!
> ***CAUTION***
>
> K1TTT wrote
>
> One comment on right angle 1/4" stereo adapters. Radio Shack 274-902 is
> a right angle adapter, I'm going to try two of these in series to fold
> the headphone and key plugs back alongside the radio to get them out of
> the way. This should be nicer than those fat headed 1/4" right angle
> plugs you can make up yourself.
>
>
> I purchased some right angle 1/4" stereo connectors from Radio Shack so
> that the headphone plug would NOT be jutting out into the "operating
> space" and allowed me to route the cable down and below the rig and out
> behind before coming up into a socket on the inside of the underside of
> the desk at thigh height - keeping the headphone cable out of the
> "operating space" completely...
>
> THE CAUTION:
>
> If it is the type with three small craws holding the metal piece onto
> the black plastic shell DO NOT USE THESE!
>
> I used them and it turns out the screws are not fully countersunk and
> the little bit of their head has caused scratches on the front panel of
> the 1000D... the word headphone now has an arc engraved through it from
> that connector spinning about its pin and scarring the face of the rig :-(
>
> I recommend using a prefabricated molded stereo cable and at the far end
> putting either a double female to plug you headphones in or a socket for
> the headset...
>
> Yes they look great - no connector jutting out, but this particular
> animal has a short coming! NOTE also that this connector needs to be
> pushes "all the way in" - it tends to want to not quite make it all the
> way into the socket - undoubtedly as a consequence of the screws not
> allowing the plate of the connector to come "all the way in"
>
> Good thing I love the 1000D so much - otherwise this would be a negative
> hit as far as resale of the rig!
>
> 73,
>
> Jim, K4OJ
>
>
>
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