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That's pretty much how I've been doing it since f plugs came on the UK
scene.

I don't know how far back you are going, Bill, but the first
time I saw them was when they were used for the internet
connection on the early IBM PCs in the early 80s.

I've just been going back over this thread on Google groups
and noticed some replies to this post that haven't been picked
up by my newsreader, for some peculiar reason so I've copied
the quotes here to reply to them.

John said:

I don't recall any networking standard that used F connectors?

Early thin ethernet with BNC connectors on 50 ohm coax
certainly

and TNP said:

Yup. BNC was THE professional RF plug in the 70s.

F types I dont recall seeing before sattelite..but we had
screw on coax - big ones - for radar and microwaves

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My reply:

I only had knowledge of one network, albeit a fairly large
one, so I wonder if it was vendor dependent?

Nobody, including me, had ever seen F connectors before, which
caused a bit of a problem because equally, nobody had ever
seen any instructions for using them!


The 'correct' method is to do up the connector finger tight
then, with a spanner, tighten one flat - ie: one sixth of a
turn. In practice, you can appply a lot more force than that
without causing problems, but not when the female is a right
angled printed circuit board mounting type!

The whole connector start to rotate, snapping of the PCB
fixings and rendering the network card useless

I saw a anumber of these so there is no doubt in my mind
whatsoever that they were F connectors!



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