[UK-CONTEST] Connectors

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

Because most of the states and a lot of other countries use PL259s.

One avantage (coming back to Ian's post) is that you can't easily get N and 259s mixed up.

My FT-857 has both an N-type for VHF+ and a PL259 for HF. I understand the units sold in the US have just 2 259s.
- 73 de M0XDF
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On 3 Feb 2012, at 10:43, Ken Eastty wrote:

> For the small difference in cost why can't we 
> have decent connectors on all amateur equipment?