RE: Re: Patch panel for co-ax?

[umar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Nigel

Do you have the product code for the Maplins Unit?

Thanks also to David & Graham - do you have pics by any chance?

Umar

Quoting Nigel Giddings <nigel.giddings@xxxxxxx>:

> I picked up a 19" panel in the Maplins end of range stuff and
used
> through F connectors.
>
> http://photos.corbenic.co.uk/photos/photo_182.html
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> Nigel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham Howe [mailto:graham@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 28 May 2004 07:32
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Patch panel for co-ax?
>
> I used an old bit of laminate flooring, very cheap, very strong and a
> nice finish :-)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Buckley [mailto:db@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 27 May 2004 21:31
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Patch panel for co-ax?
> >
> > --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, umar@d... wrote:
> > > Question I have is what is the best way to organise the
CT100 co ax
> > > cables I have run from each of the rooms?
> > > ... and so the need for a patch panel or something similar.
> >
> > What I've done in a previous life was to make a coax patch
> > panel by drilling a bunch of holes in a 1u blanking plate,
> > and using F type couplers (eg RS 483-051).  Each coax I
> > terminated in a F plug, then attached them all to the patch
> > panel at the back, screwed into rack, job jone.
> >
> > You connect up using CT100 patch cables with a F type on one
> > end, and a F type or coax on the other.  If you need to go to
> > BNC for CCTV, then CPC do a cute and cheap F type to BNC
> > cable that is much prettier than any you can do yourself.
> >
> > There are several sorts of blanking panel.  For this
> > application the cheap and nasty steel ones are better than
> > the posh aluminium ones, as they have more strength due to
> > the steel being bent top and bottom.
> >
> > David.
> >
> >
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