[Milsurplus] Connector History

[Bruce Lane]

Good eve,

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On 16-Feb-08 at 00:03 jcoward5452 at aol.com wrote:

>Jack and the Group,
>  In the not so distant (but now clueless) past,someone sent me a list 
>of RF connectors with an explanation of sorts as to the origin of thier 
>names,like SMA,N, C, BNC etc.I think "N" was Navy connector and "BNC 
>was Bayonette Navy Connector.It all seemed probable/improbable at the 
>time...

	<snippety>

	Actually, I ran across some other info along these lines. BNC actually means 'Bayonet Neil Concilmann.' It's named for the Amphenol engineer who invented it.

	'SMA' means 'Small Microwave Type A.' You can probably guess what SMB and SMC mean.

	Not sure about types N and C.

	Happy tweaking.


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