What do you call a Belling-Lee connector?I know in the US they call them PAL connectors because PAL TVs sold bygrey market importers in the 1980s used them. As a joke I have referred to the ones on US TVs as NTSC connectors. Just abouteverywhere I know, they are always called "F" connectors. Here F connectors are used for cable TV and satellite wiring. Cable boxes have(if they are old enough to have an RF out) F connectors on them. DBS boxesthat have RF outs use the Belling-Lee connectors.TV sets, including the ones with DBS-T inputs, VCRs (no new ones here) andDBS-T converters all have Belling-Lee inputs and outputs.The reason I ask is that I am using compression connectors for everything now,and have no trouble getting compression F connectors locally, BNC and RCA connectors (I have some old radios with RCA antenna jacks) mail order, but can only find one mention of a Belling-Lee compression connector and thatwas in a PDF catalog from New Zealand. I spent a long time looking for them on the UK eBay site, and several UK distributors but could only find the the kind that require you to manuallyassemble them. (screw them together). Am I wasting my time? Are there none of them available? Am I calling themby the wrong name, which is why I can't find them?Thanks in advance,Geoff.-- Geoffrey S. Mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GMTo help restaurants, as part of the "stimulus package", everyone must order dessert. As part of the socialized health plan, you are forbidden to eat it. :-)

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

Jul 25, 2010 21 Replies

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Bob Villa 15 years ago

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He meant, I believe, that "Hoover" was defunct. Has anyone tried a Google image search for "Belling-Lee connector"?

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Ian Jackson 15 years ago

Interestingly, Wikipedia says: "The IEC-169-2 connector is recognised as a source of signal distortion and has become a particular concern with digital signal reception, specifically UHF HDTV."

I recall that my own measurements (in the 1960s) indicated that a genuine B&L connector was actually a pretty good match at UHF TV frequencies (well, up to 500MHz or so) - certainly not enough to give me any concerns that the whole of the TV industry had made a bad choice of connector.

Ian

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