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The one with the fried PL

PL1

I was recycling some old hardware and I found the problematic PL plug that caused a lot of troubles and troubleshooting last year. I ended up replacing the whole feedpoint assembly and the coax jumper.

I don’t know exactly what went wrong here but I think it was a case of heavy impedance mismatch, water in the plug and about 900W on 80m and 160m.

This picture shows the backside of the victim.
I put a brand new one next to it for the contrast.

PL3

PL2

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