[NLRS] Please educate me on N jumpers

[tosca005 at umn.edu]

On Jul 28 2013, David Palm wrote:

>
>It turns out this had nothing to do with jumpers.  I was back at getting
>the rover rigs ready this weekend and back to infinite SWR in almost every
>configuration.  Finally I said to myself "this has to be the Bird meter"
>and sure enough, when I looked into the output connector the center was all
>splayed out (!)  Don't know how it got like that, but once I pulled it all
>back together with a needlenose pliers everything worked fine again.
>

One possibility is that someone accidentally attached a PL-259 instead of 
an N Male to that N female socket. The outer threads are the same size, so 
the connector seems to screw into place normally, but the center conductor 
of a PL-259 is much larger than the center conductor of an N Male, so it 
splays out the center conductor of the N female socket.

Glad you solved the mystery (at least part of it) and are back on the air 
at full working capability.

73 de W0JT
EN34js
John