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

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What do you call a Belling-Lee connector?

I know in the US they call them PAL connectors because PAL TVs sold by
grey market importers in the 1980s used them.

As a joke I have referred to the ones on US TVs as NTSC connectors. Just about
everywhere 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 boxes
that have RF outs use the Belling-Lee connectors.

TV sets, including the ones with DBS-T inputs, VCRs (no new ones here) and
DBS-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 that
was 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 manually
assemble them. (screw them together).

Am I wasting my time? Are there none of them available? Am I calling them
by the wrong name, which is why I can't find them?

Thanks in advance,

Geoff.
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To 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. :)
 
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:09:03 +0000 (UTC), "Geoffrey S. Mendelson"
<gsm@mendelson.com> wrote:

What do you call a Belling-Lee connector?

I know in the US they call them PAL connectors because PAL TVs sold by
grey market importers in the 1980s used them.

As a joke I have referred to the ones on US TVs as NTSC connectors. Just about
everywhere 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 boxes
that have RF outs use the Belling-Lee connectors.

TV sets, including the ones with DBS-T inputs, VCRs (no new ones here) and
DBS-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 that
was 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 manually
assemble them. (screw them together).

Am I wasting my time? Are there none of them available? Am I calling them
by the wrong name, which is why I can't find them?

Thanks in advance,

Geoff.
Click to expand...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_aerial_plug
 
On 2010-07-25 19:49:03 +0100, "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> said:

Ken wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_aerial_plug

Thanks, but what do you call it?

Aerial plug? Antenna plug? Belling Lee Plug?

Geoff.
Click to expand...
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:

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=getProduct&R=0531683

(RS

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

Hope this helps,
Richard
 
Geoffrey S. Mendelson <gsm@mendelson.com> wrote in message
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What do you call a Belling-Lee connector?

I know in the US they call them PAL connectors because PAL TVs sold by
grey market importers in the 1980s used them.

As a joke I have referred to the ones on US TVs as NTSC connectors. Just
about
everywhere 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 boxes
that have RF outs use the Belling-Lee connectors.

TV sets, including the ones with DBS-T inputs, VCRs (no new ones here) and
DBS-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
that
was 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 manually
assemble them. (screw them together).

Am I wasting my time? Are there none of them available? Am I calling them
by the wrong name, which is why I can't find them?

Thanks in advance,

Geoff.
--
Geoffrey S. Mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM
To 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. :)
Click to expand...


How about TV coax connector (in the UK that is)
http://www.dastv.co.uk/images/pht/th_s/3407_DAS0982.jpg
What do Americans call the one shown in the above pic?
and I will add to my
http://www.divdev.fsnet.co.uk/tool_terms.htm
UK / USA Tool Terminology Translator
 
Geoffrey S. Mendelson <gsm@mendelson.com> wrote:

What do you call a Belling-Lee connector?
Click to expand...
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.


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Ken wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_aerial_plug
Click to expand...
Thanks, but what do you call it?

Aerial plug? Antenna plug? Belling Lee Plug?

Geoff.

--
Geoffrey S. Mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM
To 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. :)
 
In article <slrni4ov9q.8oe.gsm@cable.mendelson.com>,
Geoffrey S. Mendelson <gsm@mendelson.com> wrote:
hat do you call a Belling-Lee connector?

I know in the US they call them PAL connectors because PAL TVs sold by
grey market importers in the 1980s used them.
Click to expand...
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.

--
*Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder *

Dave Plowman dave@davenoise.co.uk London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.
 
Richard wrote:

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:
Click to expand...
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.

--
Geoffrey S. Mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM
To 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. :)
 
N_Cook wrote:
How about TV coax connector (in the UK that is)
Click to expand...
Great, thanks.

http://www.dastv.co.uk/images/pht/th_s/3407_DAS0982.jpg
What do Americans call the one shown in the above pic?
and I will add to my
http://www.divdev.fsnet.co.uk/tool_terms.htm
UK / USA Tool Terminology Translator
Click to expand...
99% of people in the US would not call them anything, they have not, and
will never see them.

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.
--
Geoffrey S. Mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM
To 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. :)
 
Adrian Tuddenham wrote:
Geoffrey S. Mendelson <gsm@mendelson.com> wrote:

What do you call a Belling-Lee connector?

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.
Click to expand...
Ok, thanks.

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

Geoff.

--
Geoffrey S. Mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM
To 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. :)
 
"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> wrote in message
news:slrni4pagv.d6h.gsm@cable.mendelson.com...
Richard wrote:

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:

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.

--
Geoffrey S. Mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM
Click to expand...
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.

Arfa
 
On 25/07/2010 22:19, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
Richard wrote:

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:

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.
Click to expand...
IEC 169-2

--
Adrian C
 
Geoffrey S. Mendelson <gsm@mendelson.com> wrote in message
news:slrni4pb59.d6h.gsm@cable.mendelson.com...
N_Cook wrote:
How about TV coax connector (in the UK that is)

Great, thanks.

http://www.dastv.co.uk/images/pht/th_s/3407_DAS0982.jpg
What do Americans call the one shown in the above pic?
and I will add to my
http://www.divdev.fsnet.co.uk/tool_terms.htm
UK / USA Tool Terminology Translator

99% of people in the US would not call them anything, they have not, and
will never see them.

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.
--
Geoffrey S. Mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM
To 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. :)
Click to expand...


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?
 
Geoffrey S. Mendelson <gsm@mendelson.com> wrote in message
news:slrni4pb59.d6h.gsm@cable.mendelson.com...
N_Cook wrote:
How about TV coax connector (in the UK that is)

Great, thanks.

http://www.dastv.co.uk/images/pht/th_s/3407_DAS0982.jpg
What do Americans call the one shown in the above pic?
and I will add to my
http://www.divdev.fsnet.co.uk/tool_terms.htm
UK / USA Tool Terminology Translator

99% of people in the US would not call them anything, they have not, and
will never see them.

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.
--
Geoffrey S. Mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM
To 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. :)
Click to expand...


a masterclass on them
http://www.megalithia.com/elect/bellinglee/index.html
 
"N_Cook" <diverse@tcp.co.uk> wrote in message
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson <gsm@mendelson.com> wrote in message
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N_Cook wrote:
How about TV coax connector (in the UK that is)

Great, thanks.

http://www.dastv.co.uk/images/pht/th_s/3407_DAS0982.jpg
What do Americans call the one shown in the above pic?
and I will add to my
http://www.divdev.fsnet.co.uk/tool_terms.htm
UK / USA Tool Terminology Translator

99% of people in the US would not call them anything, they have not, and
will never see them.

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.
--
Geoffrey S. Mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM
To 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. :)


a masterclass on them
http://www.megalithia.com/elect/bellinglee/index.html
Click to expand...
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.

Arfa
 
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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.

Arfa
Click to expand...
I assume RS cannot use a "trade name" for generic (Hoover for vacuum cleaner
etc) even if defunct company name

Now all I need is a masterclass on fitting BNC connectors
 
N_Cook wrote:

I assume RS cannot use a "trade name" for generic (Hoover for vacuum cleaner
etc) even if defunct company name
Click to expand...

Not defunct:

http://www.belling-lee.com/

Maybe not the same company, but not defunct.

Geoff.

--
Geoffrey S. Mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM
To 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. :)
 
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

Not defunct:

http://www.belling-lee.com/

Maybe not the same company, but not defunct.
Click to expand...
After I posted this I looked. If you follow their products down to coaxial
connectors you get to http://www.blpcomp.com/products/viewprod.php?id=218.

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

Geoff.


--
Geoffrey S. Mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM
To 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. :)
 
In article <slrni4ov9q.8oe.gsm@cable.mendelson.com>, Geoffrey S.
Mendelson <gsm@mendelson.com> writes

What do you call a Belling-Lee connector?
Click to expand...
usually "coax plug" or "TV aerial plug".

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In article <513c911625dave@davenoise.co.uk>, Dave Plowman (News)
<dave@davenoise.co.uk> writes

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

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(")_(")
 
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