![]() This "US" system is very (more?) secure but it is not as easy to engage in tight spaces as the simple "Euro" sliding latch. What I commonly find on US equipment (and Australian Microaire radios) is that the connector shell has a captive screw which engages into the equipment's (radio's) matching threaded insert (called an "SAE 4-40 jack socket screw"). FYI - Filser/Dittel radios have a yet another type of sliding latch arrangement. The sliding latch arrangement used on Becker radios is not something I had seen prior to working with non-US avionics. Thus John Foster needing this Becker latch thingy. But one way or another you need to securely attach the connector to the radio or risk things wiggling loose at an inopportune moment. As you said the d-sub connector (and shell) are about as common as dirt.
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