Yes, that's a problem. An antenna designed for the 1.9-GHz PCS band is unlikely to be useful at 2.4 GHz (with rare exceptions).
Greg On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 08:44, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:17:12PM -0400, Brian Lloyd wrote: > > > Ok. I wasn't sure I could get away with that. 50ohm BNC's, or 75's? > > > > BNCs are usually designed for either RG-58 (50 ohm) or RG-59 (75 ohm) coax. I > > believe that LMR-195 is RG-58 form-factor as well as being 50ohm. 50 ohm BNC > > should work just fine. > > Noted. > > > > Got it. Here's another stupid question: how much pain will I endure trying > > > to use a 2.4GHz magmount (for 802.11) with a CDMA 1xRTT card (at 1.9GHz)? > > > > It isn't the mount but rather the antenna that makes the difference. The mount > > should preserve the 50 ohm impedance of the coax. > > Well, my point was more "it's tuned for something 500MHz off; is that a > problem?" :-) > > Cheers, > -- jra > -- > Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Member of the Technical Staff Baylink RFC 2100 > The Suncoast Freenet The Things I Think > Tampa Bay, Florida http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 > > OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows > -- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
