Dear all, Regarding the recent posts about the miniature connectors and cables, I agree, they do sound like Hirose (or some clone of Hirose) there are two for the purpose of antenna diversity and they are difficult to crimp.
I just thought I'd add my own little contribution from my experience using very small connectors like this and very thin cable. When you start playing about with the cables and antennas, unless you really know what you're doing, you're likely to end up with your connectors and cables radiating as much energy as your antennas (if not more). If this does happen you may reduce the effective gain of the antennas rather than increasing it. You may also reduce the isolation between the two antennas, causing the effect of diversity to be diminished. Don't let that stop you though :-) Regards, Daniel Dearing Managing Director Accelerate Consulting Ltd. http://www.accelerateconsulting.co.uk From: Joel Jaeggli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The connector on the minipci cards is a surface mount u.fl connector... you can probably find them from a large distributor of hirose electronics rf connectors. you won't be able to crimp something that small unless you're a jeweler or own a robotic assembly line. these connectors will not survive repeated connection/disconnection cycles or significant strain so they're only appropriate for internal connections. or connectioning to a larger bulkhead jack. a cable you'd use with that would be something like co-6f-(d)sb-cx50 from hitachi cable which is .81mm diameter. joelja -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
