Question for the Brits here, what do you call a Belling-Lee connector?

Thanks, but what do you call it?

Aerial plug? Antenna plug? Belling Lee Plug?

Geoff.

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I have never heard of it called a Belling-Lee connector, and I started messing about with TV in England in about 1960..... AFAIK, it's always called a TV aerial plug - this link to RS Components could be useful:

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Components used to be called RadioSpares, back when I were a lad....)

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How about TV coax connector (in the UK that is)

Belling-Lee coax plug/socket.

I might be able to find the manufacturer's original part number for you if I searched through the back-issues of Wireless World; but if it is that difficult to find, I don't suppose anyone will recognise it.

The characteristic impedance of those connectors was 75 ohms. The last batch I had from R.S. Components, about two years ago, had sub-standard insulation and were mechanically unsound (they fell apart at about the fifth time of use). Needless to say, they hadn't been made by Belling & Lee.

Belling-Lee is its name, but that's why I asked, I had no idea what people actually called them. From what I can tell, Belling-Lee is only used in the Wikipedia.

Thanks, Geoff.

Great, thanks.

The few people that have are usually SWL's (some Grundig radios used them), people who bought or sold PAL TV sets and VCRs (which is how they got the name "PAL connectors".)

RadioShack calls the adapter a "European TV adapter", but says it connects an F connector to a PAL-type antenna jack.

Universal Radio calls them "PAL", as in PAL M (male) or PAL F. to F female adaptor.

Geoff.

Ok, thanks.

I'm sure the ones I get here are not either. :-(

Geoff.

Older ones will call them a Belling-Lee, strangely enough. But they are pretty universal in the UK for all terrestrial TV and FM radio aerials, and have been since the outset. Way before PAL was thought of.

I have always known them as Belling-Lee plugs going back to when I started in the TV repair business back in 1970. "Co-ax plugs" is the general workshop speak for them. My drawer that I keep them in here, is actually labeled 'Belling-Lee Connectors' and contains sockets as well as plugs.

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I'm not old enough to have called them or heard them being called Belling Lee, only vaguely aware of the term. Even the UK "Bible", RS catalogue , cops out and calls them "standard plugs and sockets " and "aluminium plug" for the ubiquitous one I URL'd pic of before , how ridiculous is that?

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That's pretty much how I was taught to do them by the 'old boy' that every workshop used to have back then. Sid, ours was called ...

When not soldering the centre pin on those sorts of jobs where you just wanted to be out of the house before the fleas bit you to death or you caught something, we used to either bend the centre conductor, as the guy in that tutorial says, but a double 'S' shaped bend rather than a single, or else we used to 'crimp' the pin to the centre conductor where it emerged from the nylon bit, using a blunt pair of sidecutters.

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Now all I need is a masterclass on fitting BNC connectors

Not defunct:

Maybe not the same company, but not defunct.

Geoff.

After I posted this I looked. If you follow their products down to coaxial connectors you get to

That's the standard Belling-Lee connector, although you have to download the PDF file to see it.

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usually "coax plug" or "TV aerial plug".

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Also used in Spain, if that's of interest.