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- Path: sparky!uunet!opel!slc1!vk2bea!michael
- From: michael@vk2bea.UUCP (Michael G. Katzmann)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Answer to BNC question (with an actual REFERENCE!)
- Keywords: BNC, TNC, name origin
- Message-ID: <1025@vk2bea.UUCP>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 14:23:15 GMT
- References: <1992Sep11.183503.9741@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
- Reply-To: michael@vk2bea.UUCP (Michael G. Katzmann)
- Organization: Broadcast Sports Technology, Crofton. Maryland.
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- In article <1992Sep11.183503.9741@vela.acs.oakland.edu> lmbrown@vela.acs.oakland.edu (lmbrown) writes:
- >
- >You can find the origin of the names of BNC, TNC, etc in an
- >article entitled "A Designer's Guide to RF Connector Selection,"
- >RF Design, September/October 1980.
- >
- >BNC stands for bayonet Neill-Councelman, named after Paul Neill
- >of Bell Labs and Carl Concelman.
- >
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- The 199 Microwave journal State of the Art reference has an an article
- "Microwave Coaxial Connector Technology" by Mario A Maury, Jr which states:
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- "Then, as smaller coaxial cables became available, the BNC connector
- was developed jointly by Neill and Concelman, hence the N and C and the B for
- baby because of its size."
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- I don't know which is right, perhaps it just assumed to be bayonet because
- of its construction. The reference for this part of the article was:
- "Coaxial Transmission Lines...Connectors, and Components: A
- U.S. historical perspective," IEEE Trans on MTT, Sept 1984
- pp 970-982.
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