Hi Jim, I think you are being overly critical of the imported connectors
and adapters. These days virtually all connectors come from China, regardless
of the brand.
There was a time, back maybe 10 years or more ago, that your criticism was
warranted. There was certainly a lot of junk out there. In more recent
years several west coast wholesale connector supply companies have been
offering Chinese connectors with excellent quality, decent prices and quick
delivery, usually from stock.
We resell these connectors to our customers and see very few problems with
them. I use them in my own station at frequencies up to 10 GHz and see no
issues.
Even the right angle adapters work as expected; no internal springs for the
center conductor as reported in the past.
73,
Gerald Williamson K5GW
GM Texas Towers
In a message dated 5/24/2015 8:37:00 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
jim@audiosystemsgroup.com writes:
On Sun,5/24/2015 5:55 PM, Steve Maki wrote:
> Right, and then using a relatively inexpensive N to UHF adapter if you
> need to get to the UHF connector series.
Quality (Amphenol) N to UHF adapters are NOT inexpensive. The ones that
ARE inexpensive are JUNK, and should be avoided. When I got back on the
air around 2003 after a long absence, I filled my junkbox with these
JUNK connectors, and soon lived to regret it. Over the next 3-5 years, I
experienced at least six failures that were the result of those JUNK
connectors.
Do yourself a favor -- don't buy no-name connectors. I'm talking about
those pretty, shiny connectors sold at hamfests, and, sadly, by most
vendors who advertise in QST and CQ. We must go to vendors like Allied,
Newark, and DigiKey to get the real deal.
73, Jim K9YC
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