[TowerTalk] Reliability (or not) of SMA connectors

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

My first thought is/was that there might be some sort of conductive 
Loctite-equivalent that I could use.  Nothing found so far.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 12/4/2022 12:05 PM, w6rgs wrote:
> Hi Pete. Have you considered using a *tiny *amount of Loctite 222 
> (purple) low strength on a small section of the threads?
> Bill W6RGS
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr at gmail.com>
> Date: 12/4/22 06:05 (GMT-08:00)
> To: TowerTalk <TowerTalk at contesting.com>
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Reliability (or not) of SMA connectors
>
> I'm not sure if this is the right place or not, but thought I'd ask
> because this is at least a feedline question.
>
> I have a number of SMA connectors in areas of my station like my RBN SDR
> and my N1MM Spectrum Display.  It seems like every few weeks I start
> running into problems, and have to go through and retighten them to get
> rid of intermittent signal losses.  Is there anything that can be done
> to secure them better?
>
> -- 
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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