[MLB-WIRELESS] SPIRIT Wireless USB Adaptor

[John Firth]

Hi 
    I have done this with a galaxy/austar dish and it apperes to work
ok, I used cat 5 to extend the USB but i can only get 12m withouout
proping the power up. If you take the blue plastic case off the board
you will see the rouned end of the circuit board has the 2 strips for
the antenna i simply folowed then till i found the take off point for
the antenna, or you could just solder on where you cut the track for the
origional strips. Then all i did was the normal mod on the dish and
soldered a cable from where I had picked up off the board to the antenna
pcb, mounted the spirit pcb after extending the usb with cat 5 into the
plastic housing aligning the led with the hole that the f conector used
to go through so that you can see the status of it. (the hole has a pice
of glass bonded in it to keep it water proof). I assembled the antenna
and it seems to work ok though I have only tested it over about 1km so
far.
 
There was no great theory or calculation in all of this, I was only
messing around, but it works, an as for the output there only about
-13db as far as I know 
 
John Firth
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au
[mailto:owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au]On Behalf Of Adrian Lodders
Sent: Tuesday, 4 May 2004 10:35 PM
To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] SPIRIT Wireless USB Adaptor


When helping my dad setup a wireless network at home, we found this
little device at dick smiths for 50 something...
 
Just wondering if anyone knows the TX power output of the adaptor, as
they seem to work very well with 2000. And also if anyone already has
hacked for an external antenna?
 
The reason why I'm asking is that I want to install one in an ex-galaxy
dish and run cat 5 to the computers USB port.
 
http://www.dse.com.au/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/40978ccc0d324b54273fc0a87f9
c0713/Product/View/XH4268

Regards,
            Adrian
            NodeGZX
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