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Old 09-10-2009
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Originally Posted by huguley3 View Post
Its irritation with the antennas or better the people selling the antennas. I got the female ends but they are too small and don't even come close to fitting.

Also the vendors I talked to kept steering me to high gain antennas even though I told them many times I am on a boat and the gain could make things worse not better. Finally I told them I just wanted an antenna ANY antenna so I could power up the thing and configure it. By that point I had pretty much lost faith in them and just gave up. I will probably just order a pico and call it good. Now I have a strange assortment of antennas and parts.
You could sell them on eBay.

I heard somewhere that there were 2 types of N connectors. I don't have the time now to research it, but that could be the problem. After you get one that works, can you post pictures of the differences to help others avoid that problem?

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