How high was the SWR? What the defective connector at a high voltage point?
A high current point? 600 watts on SSB or CW is pretty low duty cycle.
I run 1500 watts on RTTY contesting. I have NEVER had a failure of a PL259.
Simple solution... Use a good quality UHF female connector on the coax so
you don’t have to use a barrel. Or use a good quality barrel. Don't be shy
about cranking on a PL-259 with a pair of pliers.
73
Jim W7RY
-----Original Message-----
From: Charlie Gallo
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2012 7:26 PM
To: TowerTalk@contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] Ameriton RCS4 and N Connectors
Hi Gang,
NOT critical, but has anyone changed a RCS-4 over to N connectors? I've
read all the pros/cons of N connectors here, but I've pretty much have
decided that where I can/as I can, I'm replacing al my PL/SO-259s with N
connectors, and was wondering is anyone converted this unit
BTW - the Reason? Last year, I had "issues" with my 80m antenna on Field
Day (I run from home - class 1E), and I THOUGHT I had it fixed. I don't
run a lot of 80m (It is a short antenna, low, but it is the best I can do on
my city lot). Anyway, This year, it failed again, but the GOOD news was it
didn't go intermittent, it failed hard. The failure was at the junction
from the Buryflex to the lighter coax going up in the air to my 80m dipole
(600w max on the traps, so...). The AMP brand UHF barrel connector had
failed - the spring fingers that grip the center conductor had become
extremely loose on one side - non conducting! I decided that at least in
that connector, I wanted to put in a female and male pair, and get rid of
the barrel, and the best way to do that was with N connectors (I did think
about 7-16 din, but)
--
73 de KG2V - Charles Gallo
Quality Custom Machine-shop work for the radio amateur (sm)
My Website: http://www.thegallos.com
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