Re: Soldering external antenna to Orinoco a/b/g ComboCard

you've got what appears to be a u.fl connector on the card - why not use it?

Trevor Harmon wrote:

> My Proxim Orinoco 11a/b/g ComboCard has no external antenna port, but 
> I  would like to add an external antenna. So far, I have obtained a 
> 5dB  omnidirectional antenna, as well as a pigtail for converting the 
> TNC  connector of the antenna to bare wireless leads, and I have pried 
> off  the case surrounding the card's integrated antenna. The results 
> look  like this:
>
> http://doc.ece.uci.edu/~tharmon/files/antenna_leads.jpg
> http://doc.ece.uci.edu/~tharmon/files/orinoco_combocard.jpg
>
> My next step is to solder the leads of the antenna to the card, and  
> that is where I am stuck. I am not sure what to solder where. I have  
> located a couple of documents that describe how to do this, such as:
>
> http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/searchEnterpriseLinux/ 
> downloads/sample.pdf
> http://www.jonadams.com/pages/wifi/wpc11_hack.htm
>
> But these deal with cards whose layouts are quite a bit different 
> from  my Proxim model. Any suggestions (or pointers to other 
> documents) would  be appreciated. Thanks!
>
> Trevor
>
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