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In message on Mon, 02 May 2011 19:35:03 +0100
Bill Wright wrote:

Paulg0 wrote:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
In Germany and other places they use female for VHF and male for UHF.
For a brief period the UK industry was fitting such plates, and boy
did it cause confusion and call backs.


Seem to be doing the opposite here now. I came across this at a friends
rented place the other week: http://www.tradeworks.tv/acatalog/Triax_.html

Paul


The picture shows female for VHF and male for UHF.

Bill

Perhaps he needs a sex education refresher course ...?

Like a chap in his 80s in our local a while back. When he found two bright
young things wearing topless, bottomless outfits heading towards him, he swept
of his hat with a flourish and said "I know I'm supposed to be excited but I
can't remember why ...!"

--

Terry

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In message on Mon, 2 May 2011
11:26:02 +0100
UnsteadyKen wrote:

Bill Wright wrote...

In Germany and other places they use female for VHF and male for UHF.
For a brief period the UK industry was fitting such plates, and boy did
it cause confusion and call backs.

Those are the type we have here... http://unsteadyken.posterous.com/
with the female radio outlet labelled FM+DAB.

My two FM tuners have male aerial inlets and as far as I can remember
all the previous ones were the same so it makes some sort of sense in
that, if they were connected up with the usual male/female patch leads
then it should not be possible to get it wrong, ie, plug telly into
radio outlet.

That is precisely the reasoning behind it - and you don't need two different
cables, both TV & FM patch cables are identical.

--

Terry

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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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Paulg0 wrote:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
In Germany and other places they use female for VHF and male for UHF.
For a brief period the UK industry was fitting such plates, and boy did
it cause confusion and call backs.


Seem to be doing the opposite here now. I came across this at a friends
rented place the other week:
http://www.tradeworks.tv/acatalog/Triax_.html

Paul


The picture shows female for VHF and male for UHF.

Bill

Sorry i misread the original post. I thought you were talking about the
equipment end.

Paul

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"Bill Wright" wrote in message ...
Eddie King wrote:
Am 02.05.2011 02:48, schrieb Bill Wright:


In Germany and other places they use female for VHF and male for UHF.
For a brief period the UK industry was fitting such plates, and boy did
it cause confusion and call backs.

to be pedantic:

Here in Germany wallplates require(d) female fly-lead connector for Band I/III/IV/V (in other words TV) and male for Band II
(radio) - the reverse of course at the equipment end. Prevented plugging the telly into the Band II outlet.


Thanks for that clarification. What about DAB?

Bill

Looks like the Germans have moved on Bill.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_in_Germany

--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

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Terry Casey wrote:

Perhaps he needs a sex education refresher course ...?

It could be that he's been making a terrible mistake all his life.

Bill

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On Monday, May 2nd, 2011 at 23:15:00h +0100, Graham. explained:

Looks like the Germans have moved on Bill.

DAB+ broadcasts are launched on August 1st, 2011.

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JP wrote:

I can understand that oxygen free copper audio cables make a
difference to the quality of an audio interconnect cable, but is there
any need to buy an OFC aerial cable with gold connectors instead of
the standard cable supplied with a Freeview box?

If you buy some make sure you get the directional arrows the right way
round, you don't want to have to rip it all down and clip it back again,
also you may wish to get an aerial made from nitrogen free aluminium ...

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In message , Graham. writes

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
Eddie King wrote:
Am 02.05.2011 02:48, schrieb Bill Wright:


In Germany and other places they use female for VHF and male for UHF.
For a brief period the UK industry was fitting such plates, and boy did
it cause confusion and call backs.

to be pedantic:

Here in Germany wallplates require(d) female fly-lead connector for
Band I/III/IV/V (in other words TV) and male for Band II
(radio) - the reverse of course at the equipment end. Prevented
plugging the telly into the Band II outlet.


Thanks for that clarification. What about DAB?

Bill

Looks like the Germans have moved on Bill.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_in_Germany

Would they be the same Germans who moved on Poland, in 1939?
[It took me some time to mentally insert the missing comma.]
--
Ian

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In message , Andy
Burns wrote
JP wrote:

I can understand that oxygen free copper audio cables make a
difference to the quality of an audio interconnect cable, but is there
any need to buy an OFC aerial cable with gold connectors instead of
the standard cable supplied with a Freeview box?

If you buy some make sure you get the directional arrows the right way
round, you don't want to have to rip it all down and clip it back again,
also you may wish to get an aerial made from nitrogen free aluminium ...


And if you get some company to "burn it in" for you don't forget to
leave it unplugged for at least a week before use to let the burn in
electrons discharge into the air.
http://www.russandrews.com/popindex.asp?article_id=info_Burn_In

Summary: If you have spent £100s, or maybe £1000s, on connection cables
don't expect to hear any improvement in sound/vision until they have
burnt in for 500 hours, or longer.
--
Alan
news2009 {at} admac {dot} myzen {dot} co {dot} uk

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Andy Burns wrote:
JP wrote:

I can understand that oxygen free copper audio cables make a
difference to the quality of an audio interconnect cable, but is there
any need to buy an OFC aerial cable with gold connectors instead of
the standard cable supplied with a Freeview box?

If you buy some make sure you get the directional arrows the right way
round, you don't want to have to rip it all down and clip it back again,
also you may wish to get an aerial made from nitrogen free aluminium ...

The industry is very excited by the new directional cables.
http://www.wrightsaerials.tv/ymbj/di...-coaxial.shtml

Bill