The answer is that the old connectors are so easy to solder!
At 14/12/2017, you wrote:
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On 13/12/2017 3:34 PM, Arv Evans wrote:
RCA connectors are readily
available, inexpensive, and work quite well.
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On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Keith VE7GDH
<ve7gdh@...> wrote:
- Wicker (call sign?) wrote...
- > I can add to the general consensus that a well thought
- > out enclosure for the uBITX would appeal to me; SO-239
- > preference.
- I don't know why hams are "stuck" on the inferior
PL-259
- plug and SO-239 socket. Well, I do. It's because manufacturers
- keep sticking them on the back of radios and we don't insist
- that they stop using them. For a small connector, I would
- prefer SMA. BNC is "OK" but the bayonets wear out if
you
- you connect/disconnect them enough times. For a
"large"
- connector, the N connector is superior in so many ways.
- --
- 73 Keith VE7GDH