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 | | Jim's Answer: The slash designations, such as /U, /A/U and so on, were assigned to a cable by its original manufacturer to designate it however he wanted. |
| | Yet another SCTE-List subscriber said a US Navy spokesperson told him that the designations were indeed arbitrary, because the military supposedly had huge lists of multi-letter designations for all kinds of materials, supplies, hardware and parts. |
| | Anecdotal evidence suggests RG originally was an acronym for radio government (and later radio grade); the UG designation for connectors is "universal grade;" and the /U in many of the RG cable part numbers simply stands for "universal." Even so, I'm going to have to say the jury is still out on this one. |
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