Modular right angle board mountable coaxial connector

A right-angle coaxial electrical connector mountable to a circuit board comprising:

• a housing having a mating face, an assembly face and a board mounting face, said housing including a plurality of contact-receiving passageways extending between said mating and assembly faces;
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• a plurality of contacts, each disposed in a respective contact-receiving passageway;
• at least one of said contacts being a coaxial contact comprising:
• an inner terminal and an outer conductor disposed therearound, said inner terminal including a right angle body portion extending outwardly of said housing and concluding in a first connecting portion adapted for mounting to the circuit board, said outer conductor and a second connecting portion of said inner terminal being exposed at said mating face of said connector for electrical connection to a complementary mating coaxial connector;
• said coaxial contact being surrounded by a metal shell disposed over said outwardly extending body portion of said inner terminal thereof and engageable with said outer conductor for connection to ground;
• said metal shell including two interlocking halves joinable at opposed assembly faces thereof, the assembly face of each half including therethrough a half portion of a right angle channel, both half portions together cooperating for receiving said body portion of said inner terminal, said shell including at least one ground contact extending therefrom adapted to be electrically connected to a ground circuit of said circuit board;
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• said metal shell being L-shaped having vertical and horizontal legs, the vertical leg having an extended height defining a recess forwardly thereof and beneath the horizontal leg wherein a second contact may be disposed such that the coaxial contact and the second contact may be inserted into respective contact-receiving passageways of a connector housing from said assembly face thereof, said metal shell halves being adaptable to permit the coaxial contact to be positioned in a contact-receiving passageway of a selected upper row of said connector housing without blocking access to other contact-receiving passageways therebelow.