"Paul Martin" wrote in message


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: : Ah yes! Screw-on BNCs. The joys of thin ethernet.
: :
: : "Why's the network died?" "Someone's kicked their
: : network cable."
: :
: : Such an exchange was ususally followed by a scramble
: : under the desks looking for the loose cable segment.
: :
: : The crimp-on BNCs weren't much better. Often the crimps
: : didn't last under rough handling. How we rejoiced when
: : we moved everything to 10BaseT.

Ah yes, I'd forgotten thin ethernet. Crimp-on's are fine if you use a good
quality tool, same with RJ45's. What I *really* want to know though is
why the **** did our company IT dept only buy yellow patch cables..? How
am I supposed to decide which cable in the spider's web under my desk is
the printer..?!

Ivor

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: : Paul Martin

In article ,
Paul Martin wrote:
The crimp-on BNCs weren't much better. Often the crimps didn't last
under rough handling. How we rejoiced when we moved everything to
10BaseT.

And that can stand rough handling? ;-)

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Dave Plowman London SW
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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?

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Dave Plowman London SW
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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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Dave Plowman London SW
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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
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

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
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 , Paul Martin
scribeth thus
In article ,
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?

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

F isn't that bad..

From experience, F is a right pain to work with outside in the cold
with frozen fingers, especially if the threads don't want to engage.


Can't say I've had any problems..perhaps thats cos i's got big mitts;!..
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Tony Sayer

In article , tony sayer
writes
In article , Paul Martin
scribeth thus
From experience, F is a right pain to work with outside in the cold
with frozen fingers, especially if the threads don't want to engage.


Can't say I've had any problems..perhaps thats cos i's got big mitts;!..

They are bloomin awkward though.

There's one on the back of my cable modem. I know it's awkward and I
know the cable needs to be exactly aligned, but I have to connect it by
feel (mounted up on the wall in reach but out of sight), and every time,
I end up faffing about for five minutes or so. Seems you can wind the
thing round happily for ages, thinking it's tightening when in reality
the threads aren't engaged at all.

Regards,

Simonm.

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