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nizak

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Is there a product available that you can screw onto a RG 6 connector to convert to a female phone jack?

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nizak said:
Is there a product available that you can screw onto a RG 6 connector to convert to a female phone jack?

Thanks
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Not that I know of.
Among other things a phone jack (RJ-11) can have up to four conductors while a coax has at most two.
And neither of the wires in a single pair phone line are necessarily at AC ground.
If you are trying to use it to run an analog phone line you will need to wire up an adapter box that may include a matching transformer at each end. If you are trying to use it for data, forget it.
 
GoldDigger said:
Passive or a powered format converter for wired Ethernet?
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I have seen both now that you mention ethernet converter. Haven't seen one of those in a long time. I can't say I've ever actually used BNC to RJ45 adaptor but I've seen them in catalogs. I have no idea what you would use it for.
 
petersonra said:
I have seen both now that you mention ethernet converter. Haven't seen one of those in a long time. I can't say I've ever actually used BNC to RJ45 adaptor but I've seen them in catalogs. I have no idea what you would use it for.
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BNC is the standard connector for "thin" (10BASE2) cable ethernet, but that standard uses a RG-58A, not RG-6.
Thick (10BASE5) uses a much larger cable, a variant on RG-8, and type N connectors. Nothing along those lines that I know of uses RG-6
 
Is this to get analog phone to a location with only a coax?

No one (that I know of). Makes a direct adaptor. If you were hell bent on not cutting the coax they make RG-6 to BNC, then BNC to terminals. Then wire up to a simple phone jack (RJ-11).



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GoldDigger said:
Among other things a phone jack (RJ-11) can have up to four conductors while a coax has at most two.
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Just to pick nits, by definition an RJ-11 has only two wires (tip/ring of a POTS line). The same 6p4c connector might also be an RJ-14 (two POTS lines) or an RJ-12 (one POTS line + key system control leads).

That said, there are BNC -> screw terminal adapters.
 
zbang said:
Just to pick nits, by definition an RJ-11 has only two wires (tip/ring of a POTS line). The same 6p4c connector might also be an RJ-14 (two POTS lines) or an RJ-12 (one POTS line + key system control leads).

That said, there are BNC -> screw terminal adapters.
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Yup. :D
Or RJ-13 for a different key system configuration, to continue to get technical. :)

Less commonly, the RJ-11 jack (not original RJ-11, but technically not any other RJ type either) for an original Princess phone used a 6P4C configuration for a single line plus two more wires for power from a wall wart to the lights on the Princess phone.
The 6P4C configuration was also used for a single POTS line to a phone that required a third wire for ground for selective ringing.

In any case, regardless of what the jack is properly called for a given application, the most common general purpose modular cord and plug sets carry all four wire positions just in case something is using them. They are usually labelled RJ-11 in their product literature.
 
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