Guess what "BNC" stands for.
"Bayonetted N Connector"!

Greg



On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 15:30, Cliff Skolnick wrote:
> Actually there is an old ham radio trick that you can plug an N 
> connector onto a BNC connector, it will just push on and the center pin 
> and inner shield will make contact.
> 
> Cheers,
> Cliff
> 
> On Monday, Sep 29, 2003, at 10:49 US/Pacific, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:12:17AM -0700, Cliff Skolnick wrote:
> >> You'll be burning many cards and pigtails at that rate, you'll get 1 
> >> or
> >> 2 hundred connects and poof.
> >
> > I was afraid of that.
> >
> >> I would connect a short pigtail to the connector on the pccard that
> >> ends in a TNC.
> >
> > TNC's are a pain to mate, though.  Gotta have threads, do I?
> >
> >>                Fasten the pigtail to the card really well and just
> >> connect and disconnect from the TNC connector.  It's a little bulky 
> >> but
> >> will at least last.
> >
> > By "really well", do we mean "expoxt the entire pigtail including the 
> > TNC
> > jack to the case, like an ethernet lump"?  :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -- jra
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