[MLB-WIRELESS] transform Linksys WAP11 to Linksys DWL-900+

[vak]

I have mast mounted my AP and mounted it in a diecast box.

A word of advice, if you are intending to do something similar and don't end
up using the diversity functions 
(as per this discussion thread), do what I did. Desolder the internal antenna
and terminate the pcb with a 50 ohm surface mount resistor.

This is done for 2 reasons:

1) You do not want 15-30mW of RF radiating inside an encased box - your circuitry
won't last long.

2)If you desolder the antenna (to avoid the issue as described above), you will
have an open circuit termination and most of the energy will reflect back to
the source. This may damage the final amplification stage in the radio.

Cheers,

Vaskos
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>On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Tom Parker wrote:
>
>> Rowan,
>> 
>> I'm pretty sure the antenna is switched externally to the receiver so it

>> will only use one at a time but for diverity can selected between them
>> automatically to find the one with the best signal.  On the PCB of the 900AP

>> you can see both antennas going to a external chip, I reckon this is the

>> switch.  Sending on both simultaneously would require two input/output
>> stages, since these are commodity priced I think you're out of luck.  So
no
>> repeater from a single AP today!
>
>Tom,
>
>Ok, so now all we need is for someone to hack the firmware to keep track
>of which antenna each MAC address is best communicated with. ;-]
>
>(this is semi serious...)
>
>Cheers.
>
>
>--
>Rowan Crowe - Melbourne, Australia
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