@rey those're pretty nice connectors!
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@Felthry yeah! I rather like them

@rey i think if we had to name a favorite connector it might be either TRB, TRN, SHV, or perhaps TNC

TRB connectors look like this (first picture), TRN like the second picture, SHV the third, and TNC the fourth

i dunno we just like shielded cables i guess
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@rey it was remarkably difficult to find that picture of a TRN connector, and it's still a terrible tiny picture you can barely make out
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@rey i'm second-guessing ourselves now, is the thing we use for the HVSMU actually a TRN, or is it some high-voltage modified version of TRN?
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@Felthry interesting! of those, I've only ever worked with TNC connectors. big fan of coax in general tho

@rey the only reason we've ever used TNC connectors is because we used some for a project purely because we needed something that nothing else iin the lab used for safety purposes, and we just wanted to try using them because they're so rare, we'd never seen them in person before

what did you work with them on?
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@rey it's weird, to us TNC is the weird one of those, we use all three of the other ones on a daily basis
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@Felthry it was used for the antenna connector on the handheld radios I used to work on :)

@rey Huh, my understanding was that those usually use either SMA (or RP-SMA) or U.FL
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@Felthry SMA was generally used for the GPS antenna, so having a separate connector for the main antenna makes sense from a user-proofing standpoint

U.FL is definitely used inside the radios tho!

@rey I wonder why nothing ever uses SMB or SMC
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@rey like SMB is really nice because it's just push on, no need to screw anything (slightly lower high-frequency performance as a result, but fine for anything below like 10 ghz)
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