Cable for wireless antennas

[Kim Hawtin]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 03:46:37PM +1000, ScapeSmerk at netscape.net wrote:
> THanks for the replies, I will give Rojone a try.
> 
> As a thought, I have an existing satellite dish with cable that I doubt 
> I'll ever want to use (came with the house) the cable is labled 
> as:Belden-T 1189a 75ohm 1c18 would this work? (I'm guessing the ohmage 
> would be too high, but really don't know)

most(all) 802.11 gear that i have seen uses 50 Ohm cable connecters
antenna ...

but you may be able to rewangle your dish with a new antenna
replacing the exiting receiver unit ...

cheers,

kim