At our company we have bought a fairly large number of the SparkFun GPS-RTK-SMA Breakout - ZED-F9P from a couple different retailers. So far, every PCB we aquired had a female SMA connector soldered to the Active L1/L2 slot. However, recently we received another single order of 6 boards (for reference, all had a ublox chip version ZED-F9P-02B-00, unlike the one provided in the images here: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/16481, which appear to use version ZED-F9P-00B-02) of which 3 had the common female SMA connector and the other three had a female RP-SMA connector.
Is this an intentional change? If so, I could not find any mention of it anywhere and the connector on the first picture of the above mentioned website has the normal female SMA connector.
That was an error in production, some RP-SMA connectors accidentally found their way into the SMA connector bin and nobody in production caught the error.
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Hi Chris, thanks for the answer! We won’t go for the replacement, because it’s too much for a hassle, we will just use RP-SMA to SMA adapters for the faulty ones. We just needed to check that the layout hasn’t changed in general.
Nope, no changes. Should be SMA from here on out!
Sorry for the confusion on that. 