<div dir="ltr"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">RF Connectors-101</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><a href="https://www.electronics-notes.com/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none"><img src="https://www.electronics-notes.com/parts/images/electronics-notes-2.png" border="1" align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></a>Within amateur radio we use many different types of RF connector or coax cable connector, whatever you want to call them. Everything from the familiar UHF connector through BNCs to N-types and many more.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Many rigs using bands up to 2 metres and sometimes 70cms widely use the UHF connector. Other applications use BNC connectors, and there may be a few other applications where N-types, SMAs, or even other types of connector are used.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">It is often difficult to know what the different characteristics of all these connectors are, and which one is best for which application if one is left with a choice.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px">To help overcome this, we have put together a set of pages about a variety of different RF connectors  <br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.electronics-notes.com/articles/electronic_components/rf-connectors/coax-cable-connectors.php" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://www.electronics-notes.com/articles/electronic_components/rf-connectors/coax-cable-connectors.php</a></p></div>