On Sun, 01 May 2011 10:35:12 -0500, "
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On Sun, 1 May 2011 08:00:41 -0700 (PDT), spamtrap1888
wrote:

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.

The "GR" connector is *not* a "double banana". The GR connector is a
hermaphroditic connector about an inch in diameter.

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The "GR" connector spamtrap 1888 was talking about is, in fact, a
double banana plug/jack with the contacts on 0.75" centers.

The connector you're talking about, the GR874 series, is a
hermaphroditic connector intended for RF use.

http://www.ietlabs.com/pdf/Datasheets/874_9.pdf


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JF