Whoops - yea that was meant for Jim's needs - sorry Cliff - I often just reply to the person instead of involving the list - wrong way this time!
Everett I think you wanted to send this to the list instead of just to me. I guess I showed my older ham background with a TNC (own the tools) instead of your better suggestion of the smaller SMA. Cheers, Cliff On Monday, Sep 29, 2003, at 10:55 US/Pacific, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Cliff said: >> You'll be burning many cards and pigtails at that rate, you'll get 1 >> or >> 2 hundred connects and poof. >> >> I would connect a short pigtail to the connector on the pccard that >> ends in a TNC. Fasten the pigtail to the card really well and just >> connect and disconnect from the TNC connector. It's a little bulky >> but >> will at least last. > > > Cliff's dead on with his numbers. these connectors are meant for 50x > insertion per factory spec (just take a microscope and look inside > them!) - > 50x is more than enough to satisfy a factory production line doing > several > test steps before the product ships.... but if you want to swap every > day, > several times a day and not by cards by the 52 pack :) - then some > sort of > pigtail as others have suggested is a good way to start. you can use > SMA > instead of tnc or bnc if size is important (you do have a multi-jaw > crimp > tool right?). There are some nice SMT SMAs that you would make a 1-2 > cm > pigtail out of and then gulp come epoxy over it to ensure it never > leaves > your prized card. The sma is just a little large to make it to the > pcmcia > thicknesses - if you want to exit the side instead of top, you might go > with SMB, but remember that it grows when the antenna gets plugged in. > > I think a strong epoxy is a must for strain relief. If it contacts the > center pin - check the dielectric constant of the epoxy in selecting > it. > If you want to protect the center pin from epoxy - think teflon. > > Everett > > > > -- "Information is the currency of democracy." - Thomas Jefferson -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
