[Elecraft] So-called "UHF" connectors...

[Fred Jensen]

Tom W8JI wrote:
>> inside....but I do think that the issue with standard "mud" type UHFs is
>> with the durability of the dielectric, not with the impedance bump, at
>> HF and even low VHF frequencies.

A long time ago, the USAF told me that N-connectors, when screwed down 
tightly [with fingers, not tools] were essentially weather-proof.  I 
don't think that included immersion.  Once saw a PL-259 in northern AK 
that was split open ... I guess water got into it and it froze [happens 
around the Arctic Circle :-)]

73,

Fred K6DGW
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