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TV aerial cable thing - CoAx connector or 'F plug'?
zoothornrollo_2
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Are these the same thing? I keep coming across 'CoAx cable connectors' and 'F plugs', searching to replace the one that has come off our TV aerial cable - but they look the same.
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What type of TV do you have? Terrestrial via an aerial or satellite via a dish?
Broadly speaking, Coaxial plugs or connectors are used for traditional terrestrial TV cable. F connectors are used for Satellite cable. They are both 'coaxial' cables but they are not the same and require different connectors. The cables carry very different types of signal.
The connectors look superficially similar but are very different. The F connectors have an internal thread and must be screwed in. Coaxial are push fit.0 -
Head_The_Ball wrote: »Coaxial plugs or connectors are used for traditional terrestrial TV cable. F connectors are used for Satellite cable.
They are both 'coaxial' cables but they are not same and require different connectors.
The cables carry very different types of signal.
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