Chris W wrote:
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

I didn't even see that there were two numbers. These part numbers
were originally in a list of many variations in military part numbers.
Perhaps these two examples were just the most popular ones in that
list of variations.