Of course, all this Raymarine propaganda is moot when you consider the
cheap-assed little plastic connector you have to shove through the plastic
stuffing tube and plug into the chinzy board connector inside the
radome.....If signals will pass through a chinzy plastic 10-cent connector,
a good terminal block, with RING terminals thank you, not spade lugs, is
like comparing a C-class Benz to the Yugo connector in the dome...(c;

Wonder what ever happened to those nice green mil-spec bulkhead connectors
that were SEALED against the seawater, dammit....(d^

Larry W4CSC

"maxlynn" wrote in
news:QMhfc.8563$dZ1.6836@fed1read04:

Interesting question. Raymarine had at one time strictly recommended
against breaking their radar cable and adding an in-line connector
anyway, anytime. I did it with a cheap ten pin connector on an SL-72,
and had no problem for several years. I then took that radar from one
boat to another boat, and after reading the FAQ's on their web site,
which grudgingly admitted that a terminal board or connector was
possible, substituted a terminal board for the old connector. I was
unable to get the radar to work until I replaced the terminal board
with another connector. I sense that these connections are indeed
sensitive. I'm not sure which lines are sensitive, but suspect that
it's the coax leads.

Max Lynn