DAB aerial

My ( now discarded) DAB tuner had BNC.

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.

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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.

In article , Don Pearce scribeth thus

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.

: : 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

: : : : -- : : Paul Martin

And that can stand rough handling? ;-)

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.

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.

Have you actually bought them at that price?

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

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

Bill

At least your whole network doesn't go dead because someone's caused a part of it to go open circuit. (Wise-guy pre-emption: open circuiting the power supply to the hub/switch is a different matter.)

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.

In article , Paul Martin scribeth thus

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

In article , tony sayer writes

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.