Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs?
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day agoi keep hearing that F stands for Flimsy. no idea where that came from, unless something is seriously wrong with crimping technique. i guess there’s a tradeoff between CCS or copper cable with durability of pin/center conductor vs bending radius, and some people don’t like how it turns out, while ignoring that it’s cheap and not really designed for multiple disconnections
but yeah, as long as everything is matched good-enough then it’s a cheap way to connect low loss, cheap cable
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 1 day ago
For my shack where I move stuff around, testing gear, radios, switches, etc. I’ve standardized on SMA, on my feed line which hasn’t changed or been disconnected for a decade, F-type.