  In these notes we define and study the Shahidi local coefficients matrix
associated with a genuine principal series representation I({\sigma}) of an
n-fold cover of p-adic SL(2,F) and an additive character {\psi}. The conjugacy
class of this matrix is an invariant of the inducing representation {\sigma}
and {\psi} and its entries are linear combinations of Tate or Tate type
{\gamma}-factors. We relate these entries to functional equations associated
with linear maps defined on the dual of the space of Schwartz functions. As an
application we give new formulas for the Plancherel measure and use these to
relate principal series representations of different coverings of SL(2,F).
While we do not assume that the residual characteristic of F is relatively
prime to n we do assume that n is not divisible by 4.
