[GreenKeys] jack field polarity?

[Nick England]

Tip is positive in all the Navy teletype patch panels. That's also how I
have seen teletype line plugs wired. (polarity matters for a selector
magnet driver or line relay)
I'd recommend adopting that.
https://www.navy-radio.com/rtty/patch/1203a-man-07.JPG

Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com


On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 4:40 PM W2HX <w2hx at w2hx.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
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> I’m redoing my loop jacks.
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> https://w2hx.com/x/TTY/JackField/IMG_1166.JPG
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> https://w2hx.com/x/TTY/JackField/IMG_1170.JPG
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> https://w2hx.com/x/TTY/JackField/Visio-tty%20jackfield.pdf
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> I am changing it from the long frame style (TRS)
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> https://w2hx.com/x/TTY/Plugs/20220208_162853.jpg
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> https://w2hx.com/x/TTY/Plugs/20220208_162640.jpg
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> to the more typical plugs (TS).
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> https://w2hx.com/x/TTY/New%20Jackfield/20230119_133200.jpg
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> https://w2hx.com/x/TTY/New%20Jackfield/20230119_133210.jpg
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> https://w2hx.com/x/TTY/New%20Jackfield/20230119_133216.jpg
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> In the past, I don’t think any of my equipment cared about polarity. But
> I’ve recently added a CV-2460 into the shack and it does care about
> polarity. Obviously, I can make the tip/sleeve whatever polarity I want.
> But I was curious what others do in their shacks. Do you make the tip
> positive? Would anyone care if the tip was negative? Any thoughts or
> opinions? Again, I don’t think it matters but just curious what you guys
> think.
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> 73 Eugene W2HX
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