My evidence is strictly empirical, but it appears to me that the effective
working voltage of N connectors is less than UHF.
When doing dumb things - like trying to load a 30m antenna on 17m at full power
- the attendant voltage from the SWR will arc over.
Now, if you avoid dumb because, say, you have resonant antennas (by resonant,
I mean on the band you're trying to load them on) N is quite satisfactory.
At one point I thought I was going to switch everything over to them. I now
have a bin full of crimp and chassis connectors. Since dumb seems to follow me
around, I've since bagged that idea.
Al
AB2ZY
> N-Type. Not for those running "high power". By high power, I'm nor
> referring to 1500 watts.
> http://www.amphenolrf.com/connectors/n-type.html OK, so they
> represent less insertion loss with less impedance, but what do they
> gain us at 160 through 10?. Amphenol lists them "These connectors are
> used in all systems where excellent RF and mechanical performance is
> critical." I'm not sure by what they mean when they refer to
> mechanical performance, but I've never found the typical N-type
> connector I couldn't pull off the coax with my hands (crimp type
> excepted) In my experience, They have two limitations. Mechanical
> strength and center pin migration are the problems I've seen.
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