Modern F connectors are not as bad as you think. Canare has been producing very high quality F connectors for many years and they are the standard of the satellite broadcast industry. Compression type F connectors used by most cable TV companies and satellite dish installers test as good as the Canare units and have very respectable VSWR and insertion loss to 2GHz or more. Most male to male F adapters are not so great but the 3GHz rated female to female F adapters are just fine. These will usually have a blue dielectric and there is another color that designates 3GHz rating but I forget which.
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