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The standard TV aerial plug/socket is rather quaintly called the Belling-Lee, after the British company that invented them.
I'm sure this was on your patriotism test.
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But F connectors (usually used for satellite feeds) perform better (lower loss) and are smaller diameter so better if you don't actually need to connect to a TV UHF socket. Might confuse someone in years to come when they try and connect a satellite receiver though.
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standard TV aerial plug/socket...
Is also barely necessary. The 75Ω co-ax aerial downlead is more or less a wave guide, so if you cut the two ends off square and butt them together, it doesn't really matter whether they make contact or not 🙂
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belling-lee...
reminds me of the old BT logo...
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cut them both.
put a male aerial end on side and *FEmale on other (its easy honest) and plig them together then stuff it in the wall.
I dont know the actual term, coaxial maybe?