Need help identifying an exotic UHF connector or adaptor...

How about some pictures on ABSE?

Maybe a right angle connector ? Either the dubious kind that threads onto the coax braid directly, or missing a piece that threads into the bit sticking out the side. Solder inner conductor into the centre pin slot. Does that make sense ?

Steve

Pictures?

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 12:18:54 -0700, Don Lancaster Gave us:

It's an RG-59 quick connect to 50 Ohm RF. It allows one to use the wrong size coax for a job meant typically for a bigger feed.

You screw it onto an RG-59 coax with the sheath removed (some) and the ground shield folded back over the remaining sheath. That is what the threads grab. There should be a needle shaped center jab conductor in there as well, and that digs up into the center wire on the coax. Solderless, and debatable as to reliability for anything other then receiving.

At least it looks like the right size for RG-59.

looks like this:

-Lasse

PL259 connectors serve as a good education that, in practice, you often can get away with an awful lot of impedance bumps -- people who get a formal education before playing with this sort of thing often get way too hung up on any and all such bumps... and VSWR, for that matter! :-)

It looks like one of those horrible PL259/SO239 compatible things which aren't really impedance matched to anything in particular. They're probably ok for use up to a few tens of MHz, or for connecting up antennas which are themselves already in need of a matching network. You might be able to sell it to a CB radio enthusiast or a less discerning radio amateur who doesn't yet know about N connectors.

Chris