[AMPS] RE: High Power Connectors

[W8AV@aol.com]

    Just another .02 worth.  I had N connectors on my isolation coils (to get 
the 20 and 40 meter antenna coaxes across the base insulator) on my big tower 
that I also series feed on 160.  After a couple years with the temperature 
changes (in Ohio) the center conductor pin on the N would pull back far 
enough to allow a haphazard connection and consequently arcing to occur 
inside the connector.  Noticed it during a big 40 meter run on ARRL DX one 
year when all of a sudden  signals went away.  Changed it out in the middle 
of the night to  UHF connectors and have not had a problem since.
    Needless to say all the N's have disappered from my station for HF.

73......de Goose, W8AV

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