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kindite · 03-25-2011, 08:10 PM

For fringe coverage situations, has anyone looked at doing a Kindle 3g external antenna hack? This is a screen shot from ZDnet's Kindle 3 teardown

The Anydata quad-band 3G radio uses a "hirose, u.fl-r-smt, 50ohm" SMT connector, which seems quite standard, according to AnyData's specsheet.

Any number of stock quad-band hi-gain antennas should probably work with this, I would assume.

coupled with something like this 8-inch U.fl to N-Male 8 Inch Cable for 6 bucks: http://www.wlanparts.com/product/CA1...nch-Cable.html

03-25-2011, 08:10 PM	#1
kindite Member Posts: 10 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Kindle3 3g+Wifi	Kindle 3G antenna hack For fringe coverage situations, has anyone looked at doing a Kindle 3g external antenna hack? This is a screen shot from ZDnet's Kindle 3 teardown The Anydata quad-band 3G radio uses a "hirose, u.fl-r-smt, 50ohm" SMT connector, which seems quite standard, according to AnyData's specsheet. Any number of stock quad-band hi-gain antennas should probably work with this, I would assume. coupled with something like this 8-inch U.fl to N-Male 8 Inch Cable for 6 bucks: http://www.wlanparts.com/product/CA1...nch-Cable.html Last edited by kindite; 03-25-2011 at 08:23 PM.