All my admittedly minimal RF work has been with PL259 or N connectors on more conventional lossy cables or very un-lossy Heliax. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, Henry!
PL259 ? Isn't that something used on a CB radio? It's a UHF connector.
Remember all the washers and crap for solder N connectors. Every time I watch someone crimp an N I wish I could get back the years of my life from making jumpers for 800Mhz trunked system combiners.
I also vividly remember hanging off a tower in a crappy waist belt with a but strap tapping the centerpin in some LDF or air line. I used to have a capstan on the bumper of an old blazer. My girlfriend new how to tie half hitches for load lines and tags. I would climb with the rope, rig up a pulley above me then she would winch up the load on the capstan and tag the load off the tower. That was one tough lady.
