Chris W wrote:
(snip)
BTW, who is the inept clueless moron that decided UHF Female should be
called SO-239 and UHF Male should be called PL-259? And why do people
still call them that? While I'm ranting, they should rename it to VHF
or maybe even HF, it certainly shouldn't be called a UHF connector.

The SOcket-239 is obviously the female half and the PLug-239 is the
male half, if you are into innies and outies.

This page has a pretty good description of various connectors:
http://ece-www.colorado.edu/~kuester/Coax/connchart.htm
and mo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RF_connector