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RF Explorer User Manual page 37
SMA Male/Female Adaptor
All RF connectors wear with use. The RF Explorer SMA ports are subject to
minimal wear each time the connector interface is coupled and de-coupled with
an antenna, a SMA cable, an attenuator or a RF device of any kind.
If you repeat plug/unplug operations over the RF Explorer SMA port hundreds
of times, the SMA port may underperform over time and exhibit undesired
attenuation.
To protect the SMA port for frequent plug/unplug operations, you can use this
adaptor and keep it directly attached to the RF Explorer port. Then you
plug/unplug other RF devices into this adaptor, not the original SMA port. After
hundreds of operations, if the adaptor wear and show attenuation or reliability problems, you can just replace
it by a new one and always keep your original RF Explorer SMA port intact.