[Elecraft] XV50 no output

[Don Wilhelm]

You must have had some older 75 ohm BNC connectors.
Those which comply with the 1978 standard IEC 169-8 will interchange 
non-destructively - so says Wikipedia

73,
Don W3FPR

On 11/21/2015 2:44 PM, Danny Higgins wrote:
> I remember buying some cheap BNC patch leads at a rally which worked fine.
> After a swap around my RX went deaf and I couldn't work out what was wrong.
> After a lot of diagnosis I started to inject a large signal and worked all
> the way back to the BNC antenna input socket, where I found that the cheap
> leads were 75 Ohm video types with fat centre pins that had splayed out the
> centre of the socket so that while they worked, there was no connection to
> the centre pin of a thinner 50 Ohm plug.  They went straight in the bin
> after that.
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