Re: [9fans] An Apollo Night Cap.

[Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>]

northern snowfall <dbailey27@ameritech.net> writes:
>
> Hey all,
> 	Thanks for all the previous HP advice. I finally
> got the cables/caps/etc in the mail, today. I noticed,
> however, that the BNC terminators come in three parts:
>
> 	+ The cap
> 	+ A metal cylinder of some sort
> 	+ The pin that functions as the male part of a BNC connector
>
> The item(s) can be seen in this photograph, in the lower center.
> http://www.pacificcable.com/photos/BNC.jpg
>
> There are no instructions on how to put this together. If
> I drop in the pin through the center of the Cap, it doesn't
> lock. If it tips, the pin will just fall back out. As far as
> the metal cylinder? I have no idea what it's supposed to do. It
> doesn't *fit* anywhere that I can tell.

Oh, you should have gotten pre-made cables.  You need a crimp-tool,
soldering iron, and wire stripers to put those together, if you got
what I think you did (I haven't looked at the website).  My gut is to
send that stuff back, go to your local radio shack, and ask them to
make you a length of RG-58 coax with BNC connectors on either end.
Trust me; don't waste your time.  I swore that sometime in 1993 was the
last time I'd ever crimp BNC connectors onto RG-58.

> These are 50 ohm terminators.

I hope they're not terminators at all, but rather, connectors.

	- Dan C.