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  1. Newsgroups: sci.electronics
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!m.cs.uiuc.edu!vela!lmbrown
  3. From: lmbrown@vela.acs.oakland.edu (lmbrown)
  4. Subject: Answer to BNC question (with an actual REFERENCE!)
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep11.183503.9741@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
  6. Keywords: BNC, TNC, name origin
  7. Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
  8. Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 18:35:03 GMT
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  11. From ppagel@arrl.org Thu Sep 10 09:58:21 1992
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  17. Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 15:10:35 EDT
  18. Message-Id: <52@pkp>
  19. From: ppagel@arrl.org (Paul Pagel)
  20. Reply-To: pkp%pkp%mgate@port4.hartford.pub-ip.psi.net
  21. To: lmbrown@vela.acs.oakland.edu
  22. Subject: Re: Question about origin of name of BNC connector
  23. Status: OR
  24.  
  25. You can find the origin of the names of BNC, TNC, etc in an 
  26. article entitled "A Designer's Guide to RF Connector Selection,"
  27. RF Design, September/October 1980.
  28.  
  29. BNC stands for bayonet Neill-Councelman, named after Paul Neill
  30. of Bell Labs and Carl Concelman.
  31.  
  32. Sincerely,
  33.  
  34. Paul
  35. N1FB
  36.  
  37.  
  38. Thank you for sharing this.  It certainly explains the letters AND you
  39. include a reference.
  40.  
  41. Len Brown
  42. Lab Manager
  43. School of Engineering and Computer Science
  44. Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan
  45. lmbrown@vela.acs.oakland.edu
  46.  
  47.