PAL Socket to BNC Socket Adaptor — All-Female TV Aerial to BNC Joiner, Nickel
A small rigid adaptor with a socket on each end: a PAL (Belling-Lee) female socket one side and a BNC female socket the other. Australian televisions, wall plates, set-top boxes and tuners use PAL; security cameras, DVRs, video test gear, scanners and a great deal of radio equipment use BNC. This is the piece that lets one talk to the other when both leads you are holding end in a plug — about 35 mm of machined metal with nothing inside it to go wrong.
Check compatibility
Check the gender before you order. This is the ALL-SOCKET version. If your TV-side lead is a socket rather than a plug you need PAL male to BNC female instead — see the note in the description
Key product details
- Sockets on BOTH ends — PAL (Belling-Lee) FEMALE one side, BNC FEMALE the other. There is no plug and no pin anywhere on this adaptor. It is the piece that joins two male leads together
- Takes the PAL male plug on a TV aerial lead at one end and the BNC male plug on a camera, DVR or antenna lead at the other, and mates the two
- The usual reason people buy it: a coax run ending in an ordinary TV aerial plug has to reach equipment whose lead also ends in a plug — a CCTV camera, a video test lead, a scanner or SDR antenna tail, an FM or DAB wire aerial
- One-piece rigid adaptor — no cable, no lead, nothing to power. Roughly 35 mm long, it simply changes the connector
- Nickel-plated brass throughout, knurled grip band so it can be pushed on and pulled off without pliers
- Proper bayonet BNC socket with two locking studs — a BNC plug twists on and locks, it does not just push into place and fall out
- Completely passive: no power, no batteries, no configuration, nothing to fail
- 12-Month Warranty
About this item
Both ends are sockets, so this adaptor joins two male plugs. Hold your two leads up: if one finishes in an ordinary TV aerial plug and the other finishes in a BNC plug, this is the part that marries them. If either lead finishes in a socket, this is not the part you want.
The BNC end takes the male BNC connector on your camera or antenna lead, which twists a quarter turn and locks onto the two bayonet studs — it will not shake loose the way a push-fit connector does. The PAL end takes an ordinary TV aerial plug, the push-fit connector on almost every coax lead sold in Australia.
Please check you want this gender. Three adaptors in this family look almost identical in a photograph. This listing is the ALL-SOCKET version: PAL FEMALE to BNC FEMALE, with no pin on either end. The commoner part — and the one most people are after — is PAL male plug to BNC female socket, which is what you need when you are plugging into a television or wall plate, and we stock it. A BNC male for a BNC socket is a different part again. Quickest check: every opening on this adaptor is hollow, with no pin standing up anywhere.
Check these alternatives
Need a PAL plug instead of a PAL socket? Choose our PAL male to BNC female adapter instead. The BNC end remains a socket.
Choose only what your setup needs. Linked items are sold separately.
One honest limitation. Most competing listings advertise “75Ω”. Our supplier does not specify an impedance for this part, and 50Ω and 75Ω BNC parts are mechanically identical, so we will not print a figure we cannot stand behind. For television, CCTV, set-top boxes, tuners and general antenna work the distinction makes no practical difference at these frequencies. If you need a specified 50Ω path for laboratory, amateur radio or instrumentation work, buy an adaptor sold with a stated impedance.
