"Dave Platt" wrote in message
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In article ,
Jeff Liebermann wrote:

Now working on an MFJ-259A, which looks like the usual blown diode
problem:
http://802.11junk.com/jeffl/MFJ-269-repair/

"Of course, when I got it back together (for the 2nd time), I found
the reading to be erratic and intermittent. It took a while to
discover that the owner had somehow spread the gold center contact
leafs in the type-N connector and my adapter wasn't making
contact."

My repeater cohort and I have seen quite a few N connectors which were
damaged in precisely this fashion.

The N connector is so-called because there are N different ways to assemble
it, and all of them wrong :-)