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bluedog
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Re: Different Types/Pricing of Antenna's |
- 2006/04/06 06:14 |
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usb - 5 metres will work, 10 metres is going to cause problems.
i tried this type of setup on my big dish, it was a generic usb dongle, worked well however: it will likely require mods to add the dipole elements to it , as the usb key sized dongles use a helically wound driven element and the earth-ground/plane of the pcb for the other side of the dipole.
it was a prism chipset and also had issues with netstumbler, always showing a weak signal no matter what direction the dish was pointed !
however , if your pc is in the roof or close to the antenna then they work well on a converted pay-tv sat dish or terrestrial grid
belkin make a usb version thats worth a look-at but beware of the dreaded " random disconnect" feature that seems to be built into belkin gear
cheers
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