[MLB-WIRELESS] Excellent cable

[Jason Hecker]

For those wishing to save on pigtails in terms of cost and losses incurred 
in all the connectors a pigtail entails, check out the Quickform 86 cable 
from Farnell (part 157-260) which is about $20 per metre.  It has a loss of 
1.23dB/100m at 10GHz.  It's a semi rigid cable so it's very pliable.

I have removed the reverse SMA connector from my DWL-520 PCI wireless card 
and will directly connect the cable to the pads on the board and then run 
it to a $5 panel N connector (from DSE) mounted on the back of the 
PC.  This way one gets a pigtail with not much loss at less than 1/2 the 
price of most pigtails being sold out there.

Hopefully I'll have it done to show and test at tomorrow's meeting.


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