Question for the Brits here, what do you call a Belling-Lee connector?
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From: Ken on 25 Jul 2010 14:23 On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:09:03 +0000 (UTC), "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm(a)mendelson.com> wrote: > What do you call a Belling-Lee connector? > > I know in the US they call them PAL connectors because PAL TVs sold by > grey market importers in the 1980s used them. > > As a joke I have referred to the ones on US TVs as NTSC connectors. Just about > everywhere I know, they are always called "F" connectors. > > Here F connectors are used for cable TV and satellite wiring. Cable boxes have > (if they are old enough to have an RF out) F connectors on them. DBS boxes > that have RF outs use the Belling-Lee connectors. > > TV sets, including the ones with DBS-T inputs, VCRs (no new ones here) and > DBS-T converters all have Belling-Lee inputs and outputs. > > The reason I ask is that I am using compression connectors for everything now, > and have no trouble getting compression F connectors locally, BNC and RCA > connectors (I have some old radios with RCA antenna jacks) mail order, > but can only find one mention of a Belling-Lee compression connector and that > was in a PDF catalog from New Zealand. > > I spent a long time looking for them on the UK eBay site, and several UK > distributors but could only find the the kind that require you to manually > assemble them. (screw them together). > > Am I wasting my time? Are there none of them available? Am I calling them > by the wrong name, which is why I can't find them? > > Thanks in advance, > > Geoff. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_aerial_plug
From: Richard on 25 Jul 2010 15:30 On 2010-07-25 19:49:03 +0100, "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm(a)mendelson.com> said: > Ken wrote: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_aerial_plug > > Thanks, but what do you call it? > > Aerial plug? Antenna plug? Belling Lee Plug? > > Geoff. I have never heard of it called a Belling-Lee connector, and I started messing about with TV in England in about 1960..... AFAIK, it's always called a TV aerial plug - this link to RS Components could be useful: http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=getProduct&R=0531683 (RS Components used to be called RadioSpares, back when I were a lad....) Hope this helps, Richard
From: Arfa Daily on 25 Jul 2010 20:30
"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm(a)mendelson.com> wrote in message news:slrni4pagv.d6h.gsm(a)cable.mendelson.com... > Richard wrote: > >> I have never heard of it called a Belling-Lee connector, and I started >> messing about with TV in England in about 1960..... >> AFAIK, it's always called a TV aerial plug - this link to RS Components >> could be useful: > > Belling-Lee is its name, but that's why I asked, I had no idea what > people actually called them. From what I can tell, Belling-Lee is only > used in the Wikipedia. > > Thanks, Geoff. > > -- > Geoffrey S. Mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM > I have always known them as Belling-Lee plugs going back to when I started in the TV repair business back in 1970. "Co-ax plugs" is the general workshop speak for them. My drawer that I keep them in here, is actually labeled 'Belling-Lee Connectors' and contains sockets as well as plugs. Arfa |