Comment on LC vibe check
mmddmm@lemm.ee 1 week ago
On gold connectors… Are you afraid your signal will reflect back into the antenna? Do people really do that?
But yeah, also you can make sure it resonates on the correct frequency by mechanically adjusting it and looking for the feedback.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
AFAIK gold on connectors is for anticorrosion purposes. Not particularly useful for say, a gaming mouse, but for an outdoor antenna i can see the use case.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Gold connectors are a waste of money. Regular N or PL259 are fine, just cover them with some acid free dielectric grease.
Source: The amount of ships antennae I’ve installed with cable termination is in the hundreds.
einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
i am wondering, since signals are AC in nature, it should be possible to coat connectors in a super super thin layer of polymer (anti corrosion) and it should still work, it would increase the capacitive resistance tho
mmddmm@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Frequency-dependent connectors could work, but would be seriously counter-intuitive to work with.