Do Most SAME Weather Alert Receivers Use An RCA Jack For An External Antenna?

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JASII

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I was perusing the SAME weather alert receivers available these days and the ones I ran across all seem to have an RCA jack for connecting an external antenna.

Is the RCA jack some sort of unofficial standard for SAME weather radios?
 

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Looks like it. It's a pretty simple jack, with corresponding simple plug. And in a manufacturing sense, that makes it pretty cheap.

I've even seen RCA jacks & Plugs used for transmit & receive; the old Ten-Tec Argonaut (probably over 40 years old) used RCA jacks for the RF. Course, it's power maxes out at about 5 watts.

Pretty much anything like a BNC jack would be way more expensive, a UHF/SO-239 jack would be too, but eat a lot of real estate on the back panel, etc.
 
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