[Yaesu] What is wrong with SMA?

[N4AOF]

>> BNC has a greater connect/disconnect life cycle
>>  than SMA and is more rugged and faster to
>> connect/disconnect.  I read somewhere that
>> average life of SMA is roughly 300 or so
>> cycles of connect/disconnect and BNC is
>> in the 1,000's.

> I would bet that most of the reviewers
> complaining about SMA connector
> had no idea as to the connect/
> disconnect life cycle of them.

And I would bet that the average connect/disconnect lifecycle of the SMA 
connector is slightly less than once -- when performed in the dark, or in 
the cold, or in the rain, or in a hurry, or under any other sort of 
conditions other than sitting at a work table.