15 Jul
2004
15 Jul
'04
1:46 a.m.
The former, although I think that first name is
spelled Neill.
There's also TNC (Threaded N.C.) and C and N. All nice connectors...
unlike the falsehood in marketing of the "UHF" connector.
Ah, the BNC, and what it "stands for". The problem is that there are many
references to the BNC name from the late 1940s, and they mostly
conflict. It would be nice to see an original Amphenol product
announcement from the 1940s.
The falsehood in marketting the "UHF" connector wasn't always a falsehood
- when the connector series was developed (for the military as NT-49195
and PL-259, amongst other names of variation), 80 MHz was considered
UHF. Even some of the Navy radios made it official, with names like
"Ultra High Frequency Radiotelephone Transmitting Receiving
Equipment". The UHF name (and connectors) stuck.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org