Review on SMA to BNC Kits: RF Coaxial Adapter Male 🔌 Female Coax Connector 4 Pieces - Boost Your Wireless Connections! by Aleska Allen

The middle SMA pin on the male SMA to BNC adapter broke in my stock Baofeng factory antenna. I should have bought a radio with a BNC antenna connector, but look at me, I can't afford to save up money for three months to get that, so I'm spending $30 on a Chinese baofeng, which isn't is meant for real ham radios make their own antennas and want faster disconnect than the three and a half turns it takes for the tiny SMA connector that my hammock fingers need to reach around the channel knobs and rubber cleat antenna housings, ie I take $6 adapter to make it work. So it broke in my antenna rendering the duck antenna useless now. However, no pressure was applied to this connection. I put all the effort into the BNC-BNC connector where I adapted the antenna to BNC so I could quickly switch from the antenna cable in my car to a rubber ducky without having to sit there unscrewing and unscrewing the SMA. . SMAs are considered ephemeral from the start due to multiple connect-disconnect cycles, so I decided to adapt to BNC to avoid this problem. It lasted maybe a month. Great, how much is it, like $6? I can afford $6 a month to replace it right? And everything else I buy in China breaks after a month, right? And also the element where the adapter left its bits that I can no longer use? Look for better quality made somewhere with working standards. Good luck with that of course. A $30 baofeng made to American quality and labor standards will likely cost $300 and double. But it will work, last 50 years, and be upgradeable to keep up with technology.