Subj : Re: N connectors
To   : Ed Vance
From : Gamgee
Date : Mon Nov 17 2025 08:18:28

-=> 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").



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