Topband: Rather use N-type (was Re: The answer to PL-259

[Mike Waters]

Exactly my experience, even with captivated pins!! And my coax runs were
only about 100' long.

The captivating washers were made of Teflon®, *and Teflon cold flows*. This
was when I lived in Toledo, Ohio when the temperature dropped well below
zero.

Four photos of those N connectors are at
http://www.w0btu.com/files/misc/N_plugs . See the last two.

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com

On Fri, Dec 7, 2018, 1:02 PM Richard (Rick) Karlquist <richard at karlquist.com>
wrote:

> My two 500 foot RG-216 military surplus cables both eventually exhibited
> retracted pins on the type N connectors at both ends.  I replaced them with
> PL-259's.  ...  Success anecdotes about install once and never touch again
> commercial sites are probably not relevant to ham applications.
>
> Rick N6RK
>