[Elecraft] Stealthy Antenna and W1CG Balun

[Jack Brindle]

On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 09:26  AM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

> One thing to keep in mind when using common banana jacks mounted in a
> metal panel is that they can fail if you happen to have a high enough
> impedance at the rig end of the feeder, even at 10 watts.

This is actually fairly common when using Nylon connectors. Nylon, 
which is so prominent
these days for use in banana and other connectors has very poor 
characteristics at RF,
and should be avoided if at all possible.

Now if we could afford Teflon connectors, that would be the way to go. 
Teflon has super RF
characteristics, even though it would cost a few months pay just for 
one connector...

-Jack Brindle, WA4FIB
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