@neutron_bob wrote:
Gold has the advantage of being remarkably resistant to oxidation, making it a very unique metal.
Bob :smileyvery-happy:
Indeed - I worked on military radios for a long time. We always used gold plated connectors to handle corrosive salt spray environmental testing. However, I can vouch for the fact that the sound quality of 16kb/s delta-modulated speech over a jammed hopping radio link wasn’t helped at all by the gold plating!
And all the stuff others have said about the use of gold in one half of the connection is also true.
