Followup from my previous post....
I have just crushed my first female sma on my v2. The connector would not go very far so I took it off, before I started tightening the nut) and looked down the hole.
The leaves of the female socket were bent over but not completely crushed. I got out my Chinese ¡°microscope¡± and managed to straighten them with the point of a small sewing needle initially, using the eye end for the final nudges. I took pictures of before and after but could not attach them using an Ipad. When I get to a computer, I can post them if anyone is interested.
I looped a short between the two ports and did a scan from 2 to 4ghz and the four traces seemed to be what I would expect, suggesting there was no huge transmission irrregulariy on the repaired connector.
I shall be very careful in future (and throw away all those sma standards that rotate the pin when tightening up). My 4¡± SAAv2 with n connectors, when it arrives, will have sma adaptors attached and be the main machine. Replacing sma connectors on these devices is not something I want to do very often.
How many of us have had to do this to sma connectors, I wonder.
Steve L. G7PSZ
