-=> Ed Vance wrote to Gamgee <=-
> As a retired US Navy electronics technician, I can tell you that N
> connectors are not the collar/push/pull type that you are referring to.
> There are connectors of that type, but the N-type is a screw-on
> (threaded) connector of medium size, very common on Navy (and other) RF
> radio systems.
> More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N_connector
> The N-type connector is not a push/pull, it is threaded. There are
> indeed various push/pull types, but I don't recall them being common in
> RF systems. One type that I know of is called "Lemo" and there are
> others, but generally not common in RF connections, I believe.
EV> I guess I was wrong about the connector panel connectors,
EV> I thought they were called N connectors. Sorry.
No worries, there are LOTS of different connectors, easy to get
cross-connected... ;-)
EV> The ET shop was very close to Main Comm on the USS Midway, and I hung
EV> around there at times when off duty.
The many ships I have been on always have the ET Shop near Main Comm.
Probably a reason for that... ;-)
EV> I live in Indiana not California so it isn't easy for me to visit
EV> CVA-41 to take a look to see the Patch Panel in Main Comm to findout
EV> the part number of the plug(s) used.
EV> I was thinking if you remember seeing that panel when you were aboard
EV> Ship? The coax cords had the sameconnector on either end to connect a
EV> Receiver to the jacks for the Antenn(s) available.
I've seen lots of different patch panels, of many types. Some surely
had N-connectors, many did not. It's too broad of a category to
generalize the connector types.
EV> Just wondering, if you remember seeing what ai saw in the early 1960's.
I certainly didn't see anything in the early 1960's... LOL To be
honest, most of the patch panels in my Navy were pushbuttons which
electronically connected particular radios to a "trunk line" which then
connected them to the appropriate antenna coupler. That panel was
called the "SAS" panel as I recall. In the actual transmitter rooms,
there were often many receptacles for a particular antenna, and you
would "latch" in a cable with a latch/lock mechanism on the end of it to
connect to a certain HF transmitter, for example. Also you often had to
crank some handles on a coupler to get maximum efficiency out of the
antenna (reducing VSWR "reflections").
... Is fire supposed to shoot out of it like that!?
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