On Sat, 16 Jan 2016, gareth wrote:

"highlandham" wrote in message
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Having followed this tread , I feel it is totally unnecessary to use the
described PL259 connector

Nonsense, it was totally necessary to use the available connector which
had been connected before the cable was chopped by a few feet.

It costs nothing to use something that is already to hand.

If I dug around, I might find some UHF connectors attached to some cable,
but if I "needed" one, I'd probably have to buy one.

On the other hand, some years back I was walking along and came upon a
pile of junk waiting for the garbage truck, and there were an almost
endless supply of BNC connectors, mostly used but some new, and sadly all
but a few were male. I grabbed a bunch on the outward bound trip, and
when I came back there were still there, so I grabbed pretty much all that
was there. That amounted to quite a bit of weight in total.

So there'd have to be some special reason to use UHF connectors for me.
The only bad thing about that find was that there weren't many female
connectors, and while the local surplus store once had some odd bits of
something that included two female BNC connectors, that wsa in the past
when I found this pile of male connectors.

Michael