"Frank Gilliland" wrote in message
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You have reduced yourself to taking cheap shots. So are you going to
address the facts of the issue and do the test or not?

Frank, first you can't answer the technical questions I put to you why
everybody isn't using those connectors at UHF. You claim to be so
"knowledgeable" in the area so what's your problem with explaining it?
Here's your chance to make me look dumb and you can't even take adavntage of
it because you're wrong. The burden of proof is on you, not me. The simple
fact that they are not used in most cases is an answer in it self, and not
from any lack of trying either. I'm sure many people better than you have
tried and discarded the idea of using them.

Second I have made qualitative measurements as I mentioned before in my
E-mails to you. You seem to ignore that every time you bring up the subject.

Third, somebody else has already done the test, described the test set up in
enough detail to allow people with the experience using vector network
analyzers to repeat the test for themselves, and published the actual
equipment plots. As far as I'm concerned his comments about the test
connector "being of poor quality" could mean anything from for example maybe
his preference is silver plating over nickel plating on the body of the
connector, or gold plating instead of tin coat for the contacts.

Forth, your test is completely useless since there isn't sufficient
information to even duplicate the setup you used. I don't know what kind of
cable you used, it's length, where the power meter was located in relation
to the tested connector "system", what kind of power meter was used, and
finally what EXACTLY was the configuration of the connector system you
tested. Was it a simple plug socket combo, a barrel connector and two plugs,
how long was the barrel connector was, or something else completely and what
dielectric was used in each component etc. And all of that does matter as
was pointed out in the link below.

http://iwce-mrt.com/ar/radio_swr_name/

The link below used exactly the same connector configuration I made my
calculations for in the Mathcad worksheet I sent you as a HTML copy, which
pretty much reflected the same conclusions reached by the gentlemen using
the vector network analyzer. And I'll even bet if you asked nicely he would
provide more details of the tests he did.

http://www.qsl.net/vk3jeg/pl259tst.html


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