Made my first SMA cables today. It was pretty challenging because they are so small and it was my first time making them. I hope I didn't mess up. :( #AmateurRadio #HamRadio
It was definitely poor cable construction. After practicing with SMA connectors a few more times, I learned that the center conductor's strands really need to either be very_ carefully stuffed into the center pin's "cup", or be cut very short and carefully stuffed under the cup if they don't fit in it. Now I no longer have cables that short between the center conductor and shield when bent. #AmateurRadio #HamRadio
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in reply to Neil E. Hodges • •The longer SMA-UHF cable isn't good. DC is fine, but at UHF it exhibits bad behavior. Going to remake it tomorrow.
The shorter cable is more or less fine enough.
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