In article ,
Unsteady Ken wrote:
It's an external mount folded dipole type with F-type connector on the
aerial. Complete with wall mounting and 10m cable.

Why on earth did they decide on the F-type connector for DAB aerials, it
is a total pain to connect and is a matter of trial and error to get a
good connection why didn't they go for BNC?

You jest? Fitting a screw on F-type couldn't be simpler. BNCs require the
correct crimping tool. They're also several times the price.

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In article ,
Unsteady Ken wrote:

Why on earth did they decide on the F-type connector for DAB aerials,
it
is a total pain to connect and is a matter of trial and error to get
a
good connection why didn't they go for BNC?

My ( now discarded) DAB tuner had BNC.

You jest? Fitting a screw on F-type couldn't be simpler. BNCs require
the
correct crimping tool. They're also several times the price.

Show me some F connectors at a fraction of 16 pence please. :-) The
only place I find cheap F connectors is on the road after a Sky van has
paid a visit.

eg.
http://www.connectorco.co.uk/catalogue/bnc.htm BNCs from 16 pence.
http://www.connectorco.co.uk/catalogue/coaxial.htm F plugs from 59
pence.
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Malcolm

In article ,
Malcolm Knight wrote:
Show me some F connectors at a fraction of 16 pence please. :-) The
only place I find cheap F connectors is on the road after a Sky van has
paid a visit.

eg.
http://www.connectorco.co.uk/catalogue/bnc.htm BNCs from 16 pence.
http://www.connectorco.co.uk/catalogue/coaxial.htm F plugs from 59
pence.

Strange pricing - way out of line with everyone else.
I paid 14p for screw on F-types in bulk from Rapid. 9p by the thousand.
44p for BNCs.

Have you actually bought them at that price?

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In article ,
Malcolm Knight wrote:
Show me some F connectors at a fraction of 16 pence please. :-) The
only place I find cheap F connectors is on the road after a Sky van has
paid a visit.

eg.
http://www.connectorco.co.uk/catalogue/bnc.htm BNCs from 16 pence.
http://www.connectorco.co.uk/catalogue/coaxial.htm F plugs from 59
pence.

Strange pricing - way out of line with everyone else.
I paid 14p for screw on F-types in bulk from Rapid. 9p by the thousand.
44p for BNCs.

Antiference 'f' screw ons are 8p each. I can get various cheaper ones for 4p
but they aren't very good. Some firms like Grax sell quite decent ones at
6p.

Bill

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In article ,
Malcolm Knight wrote:
Show me some F connectors at a fraction of 16 pence please. :-) The
only place I find cheap F connectors is on the road after a Sky van
has
paid a visit.

eg.
http://www.connectorco.co.uk/catalogue/bnc.htm BNCs from 16 pence.
http://www.connectorco.co.uk/catalogue/coaxial.htm F plugs from 59
pence.

Strange pricing - way out of line with everyone else.
I paid 14p for screw on F-types in bulk from Rapid. 9p by the
thousand.
44p for BNCs.

Have you actually bought them at that price?

BNCs; yes, many hundreds, if not a thousand or so but not Fs. And only
with something else to spread the carriage costs. The company will take
phone orders as well as on-line and has never failed to provide next day
delivery. On the phone they will sometimes adjust the carriage cost to
suit small packages, depends who answers I think.

The cheap BNCs are sometimes bundled with boots too. The 16p ones are
better quality than Maplin's at nearly ten times the price, the only
problem I have found is that about one in 150 has a pin with too small a
hole bored in it. At that price just toss it away!

Their Neutrik phonos are very cheap too.
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Malcolm

In article , Unsteady Ken
scribeth thus
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

It's an external mount folded dipole type with F-type connector on the
aerial. Complete with wall mounting and 10m cable.

Why on earth did they decide on the F-type connector for DAB aerials, it
is a total pain to connect and is a matter of trial and error to get a
good connection why didn't they go for BNC?

Ken

BNC is a right pain to put on outside in the cold with frozen fingers.

F isn't that bad..

Why did they need to use connectors anyway when screw terminals have
done for years?..
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Tony Sayer

On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 09:35:03 +0000, tony sayer
wrote:

In article , Unsteady Ken
scribeth thus
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

It's an external mount folded dipole type with F-type connector on the
aerial. Complete with wall mounting and 10m cable.

Why on earth did they decide on the F-type connector for DAB aerials, it
is a total pain to connect and is a matter of trial and error to get a
good connection why didn't they go for BNC?

Ken

BNC is a right pain to put on outside in the cold with frozen fingers.

F isn't that bad..

Why did they need to use connectors anyway when screw terminals have
done for years?..

Not at 2GHz, they haven't.

d

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In article , Don Pearce
scribeth thus
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 09:35:03 +0000, tony sayer
wrote:

In article , Unsteady Ken
scribeth thus
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

It's an external mount folded dipole type with F-type connector on the
aerial. Complete with wall mounting and 10m cable.

Why on earth did they decide on the F-type connector for DAB aerials, it
is a total pain to connect and is a matter of trial and error to get a
good connection why didn't they go for BNC?

Ken

BNC is a right pain to put on outside in the cold with frozen fingers.

F isn't that bad..

Why did they need to use connectors anyway when screw terminals have
done for years?..

Not at 2GHz, they haven't.

d

Don this was a DABble aerial circa 226 MHz!...
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Tony Sayer

On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 10:11:41 +0000, tony sayer
wrote:

In article , Don Pearce
scribeth thus
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 09:35:03 +0000, tony sayer
wrote:

In article , Unsteady Ken
scribeth thus
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

It's an external mount folded dipole type with F-type connector on the
aerial. Complete with wall mounting and 10m cable.

Why on earth did they decide on the F-type connector for DAB aerials, it
is a total pain to connect and is a matter of trial and error to get a
good connection why didn't they go for BNC?

Ken

BNC is a right pain to put on outside in the cold with frozen fingers.

F isn't that bad..

Why did they need to use connectors anyway when screw terminals have
done for years?..

Not at 2GHz, they haven't.

d

Don this was a DABble aerial circa 226 MHz!...

Ah - didn't read the thread. I thought it was a sat feed. Bit of wet
string will do for DAB - or it would if they just wound up the wick on
the transmitters a bit.

d

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In article ,
tony sayer wrote:
Why did they need to use connectors anyway when screw terminals have
done for years?..

I wondered that too considering it was a 'shed' aerial.

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