[TowerTalk] Commscope SFX-500 cnnectors

[TexasRF--- via TowerTalk]

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 at 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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