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Offline brimsTopic starter

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F Connector Question
« on: April 09, 2017, 02:09:41 am »
I've got an F connector jumper that I need to find more of but I can't seem to figure out what combination of words to use; I've tried combinations of "f connector", "rigid", "panel jumper", and others. I hope this is the correct subforum. I've attached a picture of the connector.
 

Offline Cerebus

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Re: F Connector Question
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2017, 02:17:35 am »
The BNC version are called U-links or MUSA links. Try that variants on that.
Anybody got a syringe I can use to squeeze the magic smoke back into this?
 

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Re: F Connector Question
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2017, 03:50:52 pm »
Great, thank you. I didn't think about looking at other connectors for similar products.
 

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Re: F Connector Question
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2017, 02:09:32 am »
The BNC version are called U-links or MUSA links. Try that variants on that.

No,"MUSA" is quite a different connector to BNC or "F".
They are pretty much obsolete , & as far as I can remember "MUSA" is a brand name.
 

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Re: F Connector Question
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2017, 12:18:01 pm »
The BNC version are called U-links or MUSA links. Try that variants on that.

No,"MUSA" is quite a different connector to BNC or "F".
They are pretty much obsolete , & as far as I can remember "MUSA" is a brand name.

Strictly speaking you are correct, but in practice the bayonet-less slip on 75R BNC* patch panel links are often colloquially called MUSA links in broadcasting. It might not be correct, but it's done in practice and I thought it might be helpful to literally "get on the same [catalogue] page" in hunting down the F variant as such a misappellation quite often makes it to the page.

*Again, technically incorrect as, being missing the bayonet pins, this part can't be a Bayonet Neill–Concelman connector but I have never heard them called anything other than BNCs.
Anybody got a syringe I can use to squeeze the magic smoke back into this?
 

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Re: F Connector Question
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2017, 10:48:18 am »
This is a MUSA connector. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_connector

The first pic is a MUSA U-link, the second is of me in the 80s working in a broadcast links truck.
The U-links can be seen top right. All the video inputs and outputs went via these links so the
equipment could be reconfigured in case of equipment failure or for special needs.

 


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