Actually - it's "Bayonet Navy Connector" - the "type N" is a "Type Navy" which was designed with water resistance in mind on both the screw fitting and the cable <> connector seal, which is why people hate assembling them properly. I'm not sure which came first, but I'm sure someone along the way said, "my thumbs hurt from twisting all these [EMAIL PROTECTED]@# cables - there's got to be an easier way!"
I've seen type N connectors hold several PSI of dry nitrogen on the cable connection to keep moisture out of the whole assembly. There are even special Nm-Nf feedthroughs to insert gas into the line Everett > > > 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 > > > -- > > > Jay R. Ashworth > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Member of the Technical Staff Baylink > > > RFC 2100 > > > The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think > > > Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 > > > 647 1274 > > > > > > OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging > > > Windows > > > -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c > > > -- > > > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > > > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > > -- > > "An eye for an eye and the whole world ends up blind." > > - Mahatma Gandhi > > > > -- > > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
