David,
Well done! Thanks to Keith’s prompt, that has clarified the situation completely and we now have the definitive answer. Those adapters are definitely SMA Female - which accepts the Male ‘pin’ connector on the end of the cable, but to RP-SMA Male, which will screw onto the SMA on the PAW, but has a female socket inside the ‘Male’ connector instead of a ‘pin’. This results in two female sockets back to back at the PAW SMA Female connector - and hence (at best) absolutely minimal P3i signal transmission. Swap these for ‘Non-RP’ SMA Female to SMA Male adapters and the issue should be resolved. As a temporary work around, you could carefully insert a short piece of stiff copper wire of the correct diameter in place of the missing pin, but replacement with the correct part is by far the better course of action.
Let us know how you get on.
p.s. Paul, the above polar diagram gives the combined PAW and ADSB signal. If you look carefully, you can see that the screenshot has been taken before ‘Go’ was pressed after selecting PilotAware - so in view of the incorrect SMA adapter it is in effect simply an ADSB report from the aircraft’s transponder. I have attached the most recent PilotAware Vector diagram below for comparison.
Best Regards
Peter