[ICOM] What is wrong with SMA?

[mikea]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:07:45AM -0600, D C *Mac* Macdonald wrote:
> A Yaesu HT I won at a hamfest last year has a
> non-BNC connector fitted.  I don't know if it is
> an SMA.  The connector used may be a pain to
> find an adaptor or direct connector for using coaxm
> but the antenna fits far more securely with it than
> with BNC.  I have come to dislike the use of BNC
> antenna connectors on HTs due to their proclivity
> to wobble and eventually break the internal
> connection to the RF board.

If it's a VX-150, it uses an SMA. At least one well-known store in 
OKC (NW 23rd, just W of I-44) carries an adapter for not terribly 
much money. 

> TNC would also be a valid choice as connectors
> are available to use RG-58 connectors to external
> antennas.  TNC was once widely used for actual
> mobile and portable (not handheld) cellphones.

I rather like TNC, myself, for its sturdiness, but can understand
why a manufacturer might want something with a smaller footprint
on the actual radio. My VX-150 is pretty crowded up on the
knobs-and-connector end of things.

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin