RE: Re: Patch panel for co-ax?

["Nigel Giddings" <nigel.giddings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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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