[NoCatNet] Re: [Community] Linksys WMP55AG

[Ron Wickersham]

Rob is right, the connector manufacturer is Hirose, a Japanese company.
these connectors are also popular for GPS receivers.   the type designation
is U.FL.    the mating connector you need is U.FL-R-SMT.

Amphenol makes a mateable coax connector and calls it AMC.  here's their
web page http://www.amphenolrf.com/products/amc.asp

an almost identical connector is made by Japanese company I-pex and their
designator is MHF.

a picture of a pigtail is at http://www.mikrotik.com/img/ucl_pigtail.jpg
and their catalog page at http://www.wireless.lv/antennas.php (at the
bottom).  their price is 29 (about twice what they want for MMCX pigtails).
but they're in Latvia.

about 1/5th down the page they have a picture of their dish feed can which
indicates scale (about 1-1/2 inch diameter and 3-1/4 inch long, with feed
about 3/4 inch from back wall).   can't get precision from a photo, but
that's a ballpark place to start.

i'm pretty sure i recently saw the Hirose connector pigtail from one of the
regular suppliers but i can't locate it tonight.

here's a 4 inch long Hirose to bare wire with RG-174 cable from Australia
for ~12 USD.  http://www.commlinx.com.au/Hirose_to_Pigtail_Cable.htm

ok, NetGate has them but only to reverse polarity TNC for $25.00:
http://www.netgate.com/product_pigtails.html

Cisco uses the connectors on their MiniPCI MPI-350.   any friends at Cisco
that could pick you up some connectors or pigtails?

and a google search showed an e-mail that someone got pigtails from Michael
at personaltelco.

-ron

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Rob Flickenger wrote:

>
> On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 09:48  PM, Roger Weeks wrote:
>
> > Inside, as suspected, is a MiniPCI slot, MiniPCI card, atheros 5212a
> > chipset.
> > The antenna lead, happily, is not soldered on as I was led to believe
> > by a post on another list.
> >
> > It has a TINY little connector that the antenna lead hooks to.  Does
> > anyone know what type of connector this is?  It's a male connector
> > rather than female as I'm used to on PCMCIA cards.
>
> If it's like their g card and many other mini PCI cards, people up here
> call it a Hirosi connector.  I have no idea where to buy one.
>
> But I hear that there's a dead WRT54G floating around somewhere in
> Sebastopol, which has two Hirosi to RP-TNC connectors in it...  Maybe
> you could make them an offer?  ;)
>
> --Rob
>
>
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