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Originally Posted by N2IXK
Were these connectors ever that common?
The whole reason for them was to be able to quickly connect/disconnect the antenna wire. Not something that the average set owner did often enough to care about.
The only place I ever saw them used was on repair shop service benches, or on the output of portable test gear like bar/dot generators. Once the 75 ohm era came along, we used the push-on type F connectors for the same reason, but they were a lot less durable...
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Mostly they were found in homes of folks who disconnected the antenna wire during a thunderstorm.
Thanks for the photo Marty, you got all the colors too!