PAL Male Plug to BNC Female Socket Adaptor | TV Aerial to BNC Coax

Product Overview

A small rigid adaptor that puts a BNC female socket on one end and a PAL (Belling-Lee) male plug on 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. About 35 mm of machined metal with nothing inside it to go wrong.

The commonest job is a camera into a television: analogue CCTV and most reversing or gate cameras terminate in BNC, and there is nowhere on a TV to put that. The reverse is just as common — an antenna lead that ends in BNC (a scanner whip, an SDR pigtail, an FM or DAB wire aerial) needing to reach a PAL socket.

The BNC end is a socket, not a plug. It 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 is a plug, and it pushes into the aerial socket on a TV, wall plate or set-top box.

Please check you want this gender. Four adaptors in this family look almost identical in a photograph. This listing is PAL MALE to BNC FEMALE. If you need PAL female to BNC female — because your TV lead already ends in a PAL plug — search our store for the all-socket version. A BNC male for a BNC socket is a different part again. Quickest check from the photographs: a pin in a plain barrel is the PAL plug, and the barrel with two little studs is the BNC socket.

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.