On 24/06/18 14:30, Roland Perry wrote:

You could argue those dominoes began to fall in 1994.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maplin...ion_by_Saltire


Quality of connectors fell then. Products from Altai were made of cheese
quality plastic, and soldered badly.

Some here, I spotted at a car boot sale.

PL259s galore....
https://youtu.be/KFuWZZFGiew

Here's a writeup by someone.

http://www.alanwinstanley.com/alan-w...-farewell.html

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Adrian C