>
>At 08:12 AM 3/2/00 -0700, measures wrote:
>
>>The reason to use Type-N or Type-C fittings at HF is to keep water out
>>of coax. When used outdoors, PL-259s allow water to enter coax. .
>>During a rainstorm, a friend of mine found a small puddle of water under
>>his amplifier. Water was entering the braid of the coax via a PL-259
>>that was outdoors, and then running down the braid to the amplifier's
>>coax fitting.
>
>To be sure. I have had several of those mysterious puddles appear on my
>floor as well. It's always a real surprise when you finally realize where
>all the water is coming from.
>
Indeed
>N connectors are expensive, hard to install correctly,
I can do it. Measure each cut carefully and it's a piece of cake/
> and in general a
>pain in the southernmost regions. I do use them, but only outside where I
>need to keep the WX outside the coax and on frequencies where the high
>return loss characteristics are important.
>
>The best solution is no connectors at all. For HF use there is little
>reason to do so. Short pigtails with spade lugs can be weatherproofed
>easily and the connection is capable of John Lyles power levels. SWR is not
>a problem when this approach is used with care. My old two meter, 16 yagi
>EME array had only one (N) connector in the entire phasing harness, that
>was needed to connect to the change-over relay. Inside the relay box I had
>a couple BNC'S!!! My 40 meter 4-square has only a UHF connector on the end
>of 200 feet of coax and that only to get into the coax selector switch. The
>EME array was about 1.2 to 1 across the low end and the 40 meter 4 square
>is about 1.15 to 1 across the entire band.
>
>No power problems, no SWR problems, no WX problems, and the spade lugs only
>cost about 10 cents at Checker auto! What more could a guy ask for?
>
Type C connectors. They go cheap at swap meets because most people
think they are useless military junk. .
>
cheers, Larry
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