How to distinguish Standard and Reverse Polarity Connectors?
What are Reverse Polarity (RP) Coaxial Connectors? What are the differences between the standard parts?
The following are the standard SMA Female and Male interface. Female connectors with the female body, outside thread, and center socket. And Male connectors have the male body, inside thread, and center pin.
While the Reverse Polarity Male and Female connectors consist of the standard body but reverse the gender of the center contact. In other words, the female body together with the center pin & the male body along with the center socket. An example below(RP-SMA and standard SMA female connectors).
Reverse
polarity does not refer to the signal polarity but rather to the gender
of the center contact. The gender of those connectors is according to
the gender of the body. So Reverse polarity connectors should be mated
with Reverse polarity connectors.
