John Popelish wrote:

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.

Sounds like a reasonable explanation for SO and PL, but it doesn't
explain the 239 vs 259


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


Thanks for the links


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Chris W
KE5GIX

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