PAL Male Plug to F Type Female Socket Adaptor | TV Aerial to F Coax

Product Overview

This is the small rigid adaptor that lets a coaxial cable terminated with a screw-on F connector feed a television or set-top box whose aerial input is the ordinary Australian PAL socket. One end is a PAL plug — the plain barrel with a single pin standing proud in the middle — and the other is an F socket, the externally threaded barrel closed by a white insulating disc with a small hole through the centre. Screw your cable onto the threaded end and push the other end into the aerial socket.

The job it does most often is bringing a satellite, pay-TV or shared-antenna feed into ordinary television equipment. Coax used for those installations is nearly always terminated with an F connector, because it screws up tight and stays put, while televisions, video recorders, set-top boxes and wall plates sold in Australia take a PAL plug. This adaptor bridges the two without re-terminating the cable. It is equally at home on a bench, where an F-terminated patch lead needs to reach a tuner that only offers the push-fit socket.

The PAL end is a plug and the F end is a socket. The PAL end is the plain barrel with the small pin in the centre, and it goes into the aerial socket on your equipment. The F end is the threaded barrel with the white disc, and the connector already fitted to your coax does up onto it. If you hold your cable in one hand and look at the last connector on it, this adaptor is the right one when that connector is a male F fitting with a thread and a fine centre wire, and the thing you are trying to reach has a push-fit aerial socket.

Please check you want this gender. Four adaptors in this family look almost identical in a photograph. This listing is PAL MALE to F FEMALE. If what you need is the opposite — an F plug to screw into an F socket on a wall plate, splitter or dish, with a PAL socket to accept an aerial lead — search for “F male to PAL female”, because that is a different part and this one will not do it. All-socket and all-plug versions exist as well. Quickest check from the photographs: the threaded end with the white disc is the F socket, and the plain end with the pin is the PAL plug.

One honest limitation. Most competing listings advertise “75Ω”. Our supplier does not specify an impedance for this part, so we will not print a figure we cannot stand behind. For television, antenna, satellite and general AV work the distinction makes no practical difference at these frequencies. If you are doing laboratory or instrumentation work where a specified impedance genuinely matters, buy an adaptor sold with a stated figure.