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- From: strong@tc.fluke.COM (Norm Strong)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Question about origin of name of BNC connector
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.143719.21914@tc.fluke.COM>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 14:37:19 GMT
- Article-I.D.: tc.1992Sep14.143719.21914
- References: <1992Sep8.205843.12516@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <BuA81s.6pp@scd.hp.com> <BuAIvr.Jzy@news.udel.edu>
- Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
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- In article <BuAIvr.Jzy@news.udel.edu> ghw@brahms.udel.edu (George Watson) writes:
- }In article <BuA81s.6pp@scd.hp.com> albert@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Albert Alcorn) writes:
- }>lmbrown@vela.acs.oakland.edu (lmbrown) writes:
- }>: I think that the BNC stands for Bayonet Connector. Can anyone confirm or
- }>: disprove this?
- }>:
- }>:
- }>The one I heard was:
- }>
- }>Bayonet Navy Connector
- }>
- }And certainly not the ``baby N'' connector as stated by
- }Horowitz and Hill, pg 55! (A rare glitch in an excellent text.)
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- I called up the President of Pasternak Enterprises, a company that makes
- its living manufacturing these things, and he said it meant:
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- Bayonet Navy Connector
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- TNC means Threaded Navy Connector.
-
- Judge for yourself.
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