better antenna for a USB DVB-T dongle?

2014-07-26 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, I'm asking here since I saw that quiet a few members here mentioned using things like this in the past. I bought a USB DVB dongle for my Cubox-I running OpenELEC (here is the item on ebay: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/251537079924) and although it's well supported and the kernel recognises it

Re: better antenna for a USB DVB-T dongle?

2014-07-26 Thread vordoo
Buy/build an antenna. The one on the roof probably isn't tuned to the right freq., but you can try it (as the dongle only receives no harm can be done), once you get a connector from an electronic supply store(downtown TLV or muser etc. on the net).

Re: better antenna for a USB DVB-T dongle?

2014-07-26 Thread Tomer Cohen
Roof antenna could not be very helpful in your case, but you can buy an active antenna or place the current one near a window. As for the antenna connector, you can buy a cheap adapter; I bought this one: http://www.dx.com/p/lwj-023-mcx-male-to-tv-female-antenna-adapter-cable-black-17-5cm-207418

Re: better antenna for a USB DVB-T dongle?

2014-07-26 Thread Evgeniy Ginzburg
TV dongles use MCX connector. Truy one of those to connect to wal plug http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=mcx+to+Belling-Lee There is can be impedance mismach but with one of such connectors you also can buy bigger antennae that connect to standart jack if roof antenna won't work good. And when

Re: better antenna for a USB DVB-T dongle?

2014-07-26 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On 7/26/2014 10:25 PM, Evgeniy Ginzburg wrote: TV dongles use MCX connector. Truy one of those to connect to wal plug http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=mcx+to+Belling-Lee There is can be impedance mismach but with one of such connectors you also can buy bigger antennae that connect to

Re: better antenna for a USB DVB-T dongle?

2014-07-26 Thread Amos Shapira
Thanks everyone for chipping in. Once I learned the name of the connector (MCX) and based on this and finding that the regular plug is called also Type N I found a pig tail converter and ordered it (http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/121310526140). Tomer - why wouldn't the roof antenna be useful. Is it