Aha! I now see the tab. Thanks for the feedback.
w8lvn On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 9:54 PM Marshall Harrison <marsh...@gotspeech.net> wrote: > No, that is not a convention. They should follow the black is ground and > red is hot but sometimes quality control isn't what it should be. > > I always check to make sure since the colored tops can be easily swapped > so I don't trust them. The black/ground/shield side usually has a small tab > or something to identify it as being connected to the coax shield. > > *Marshall Harrison, * > *W4MKH* > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 10:32 PM Bill Lederer <w8lv...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Team: >> >> I have been using a wire out the window from my upstairs office for an >> antenna for my kx3. The wire goes to a tree about 30 feet away, so it is >> essentially a random wire. I have an additional wire that goes to a >> ground >> rod one floor below. >> >> In doing some experiments with RBN and this combination with 5 watts, I >> was >> confused about why connecting the wire to the tree to ground through the >> BNC-BP and the ground wire to the hot side of the BNC-BP gave better >> results. >> >> Finally, I measured which was which, and discovered that the black plastic >> nut on this connector is actually connected to the center pin of the BNC, >> with the red being ground. This was certainly contrary to my expectations. >> >> I also have a kx2 and got one of these connectors along with that kit. And >> sure enough, it had the same convention--black is the center pin, red is >> ground. >> >> This is contrary enough to my intuition that I reversed the nuts, so now >> that the red indicates the center pin. >> >> Is this a convention that black is hot and red is ground with these? >> >> Thanks, >> w8lvn >> >> -- >> --w8lvn-- >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to marsh...@gotspeech.net >> > -- --w8lvn-- ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
