![]() ![]() The gender of a connector is, indeed, named by the configuration of the center conductors connecting parts. Sank had it right the first time but both links have errors in them. ![]() I guess people do make their own conventions. For instance: is a female connector because the center pin is female.Īfter further review, I could be wrong. The outer shell determines if it's a plug or socket. ![]() Yes, the text and picture are in contradiction, however, gender of a connector is _always_ determined by its center pin. Male housing always plugs inside female housing, The "male" and "female" part of SMA connectors are in fact consistent. By standard convention it is an RP-SMA Female connector.Īn RP-SMA Male connector has a hole in the center, and threads on the inside. BenKinsella 17:04, 29 March 2007 (UTC) Reply įigure 2 is *not* captioned correctly. It is captioned correctly, except that the word Jack is omitted. The lower image shows a Reverse-Polarity SMA Jack (with centre pin). So the top image shows a (standard polarity) SMA Plug (with centre pin), and it is captioned correctly. "Reverse-Polarity" SMA specifies the opposite: Plugs are Female and Jacks are Male."Standard-Polarity" SMA specifies that Plugs are Male and Jacks are Female.It should perhaps also be pointed out that Male/Female always refers to the pin in every other connector standard in the world, but with the article's 'reverse polarity SMA' explanation, Male refers to the plug, not to the pin.A more correct term would have been 'reverse gender'. We cannot change the term as it is already widespread, but the misnomer nature needs to be pointed out as it confuses RF engineers who are not from the WiFi trade as well as people with electronic background. The 'reverse polarity' term is a misnomer and leads to a lot of confusion.A Plug has the thread on the inner surface, while a Jack has the thread on the outer surface. But you also have to specify whether you are talking about a Plug or a Jack. Male/Female refers to the centre Pin/Socket. It is not enough to specify, for example, "SMA Female connector". The article is correct, but it is missing one important piece of information.Does anyone know which is right, the caption or the text? Please correct the article if you do.Ģ12.126.219.114 07:37, 1 June 2006 (UTC) Reply ![]() But the text states that male SMA and RP-SMA connectors differ by their centre contact, not their housing, and that a male RP-SMA connector has a receptacle (socket) in the centre. The bottom photograph, according to its caption, shows a male RP-SMA connector, which has a pin and a different housing from the ordinary male SMA connector. The top image of a standard SMA connector shows a male connector (with a pin rather than a socket in the centre). PO Box, APO/FPO, Alaska/Hawaii, American Samoa, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Bahamas, Barbados, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Comoros, Cook Islands, El Salvador, Eritrea, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gambia, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Iceland, Jamaica, Jersey, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Malawi, Mali, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niue, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Russian Federation, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, US Protectorates, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (U.S.The description of reverse-polarity SMA connectors contradicts the images. ![]()
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