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Default Name of plug in US

On May 1, 4:29*am, "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" wrote:
Jasen Betts wrote:
The car radio antenna plug if often called "Motorola"
no doubt it has a technical name too, but Wikipedia
doesn't seem to know it.


Why can't Motorola be it's proper name? It was "invented" by Motorola.
It's a longer version of the the RCA connector, "invented" by RCA.


Or the "GR" plug on General Radio equipment. People my age fairly
universally called it the "double banana" plug.