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Originally posted by Speed Daemon View PostMaybe you should buy an antenna with the appropriate connector already installed, and use it while you work on your technique. It looks like you're on the right track, but need to work on quality. How about trying to make a simple dipole, and see how that works? Another thing I'd do is make a pigtail to the dongle made from lighter weight coax. If you can afford it, get a crimping tool and crimp on connectors for the other end of the pigtail and the end of each antenna lead. If not, at least the soldering and strain will be safely away from the dongle.RTL SDR : T-VEVZ1
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I couldn't tell from the photo, but I thought I saw a cold solder joint or two there. I know that those tiny connectors are delicate and can melt the dielectric easily, so doing the soldering farther down the line will let you put more heat onto the solder without fear of melting the MCX connector.
The best option still is to get a pigtail with MCX at one end and a more sturdy connector at the other. I use N connectors because I've used them at work and they're fairly standard. But SMA connectors might be less expensive and easier to handle. Because SMA are small thay can't handle larger cables though.
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Originally posted by Speed Daemon View PostI couldn't tell from the photo, but I thought I saw a cold solder joint or two there. I know that those tiny connectors are delicate and can melt the dielectric easily, so doing the soldering farther down the line will let you put more heat onto the solder without fear of melting the MCX connector.
The best option still is to get a pigtail with MCX at one end and a more sturdy connector at the other. I use N connectors because I've used them at work and they're fairly standard. But SMA connectors might be less expensive and easier to handle. Because SMA are small thay can't handle larger cables though.Originally posted by charan View PostThis is ridiculous jus made pig tail and kept the laptop on top floor [ATTACH=CONFIG]3585[/ATTACH] much better reception
I agree with you Speed Daemon.
When I got my first Dongle, I used Stock Antenna which was supplied with the Dongle. Then one day the cable got pulled out from base of stock antenna (Picture 1).
This was blessing in disguise, as this forced me to make an antenna myself. I then made the simplest & tiny resonant antenna, a Half-Wave Dipole. This antenna has advantage that its Impedance is 75 Ohms which perfectly matches with impedance of RG6 Coaxial Cable (75 Ohms), as well as Input Impedance of the Dongle (75 Ohms).
I then put the Dipole near window and run a RG6 coaxial from antenna to desktop (picture 2). To connect RG6 thick coax to Dongle, I made a pigtail utilizing the pulled-out cable of stock antenna (Picture 3). I did NOT solder, because the pigtail cable had very thin insulation of core and I feared heat may damage it and cause a short. Also the braid of my antenna coax (RG6) was Aluminium which cannot be soldered. I solved the problem by twisting cores of two coax together, and braids of two coax together, then tapped both the core joint & braid joint separately so they don't short, and then tapped the joint overall to give it a neat look.
Later I purchased a solder-able Female F-Connector, soldered the pigtail to it, fitted a Male F-Connector on my RG6 Coax from antenna and connected the two coax through F-Male-Female connectors.
Recently I purchased a factory-made 20 inch (50 cm) long pigtail with MCX-Male on one end & F-Female on other end, and am keeping it as spare (Picture 4).
Please See photos below:
Picture 1: Cable Got Pulled Out from Stock Antenna During Handling/Use of Stock Antenna
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Picture 2: My Home Made Half-Wavelength Dipole Installed Indoors Near Window
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Picture 3: My Home Made Pigtail
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Picture 4: My Factory Made Pigtail
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Originally posted by charan View Post[ATTACH=CONFIG]3580[/ATTACH]
The MCX is either damaged or it's central pin is not making proper contact with dongle's center hole due to pulling or bending force of heavy coaxial cable.
To reduce pressure on delicate MCX connector, the MCX should be connected to say 30 cm or more of thin coaxial cable, and other end of thin coaxial cable should be joined with the heavy coaxial cable from antenna. See Photo below:
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Originally posted by charan View PostGuys please help me, i made nearly four antennas still no luck check this too much noise and very less range more or less same for all antennasF-YSWG1 and T-YSWG2
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Originally posted by YSWG View PostTry an USB extension cable (5 metres max) and put the dongle in an anti-static hard drive bag. I've found that it has reduced the noise but not much you can do if you have something transmitting near by (mobile phone cell ect).RTL SDR : T-VEVZ1
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Originally posted by abcd567 View PostThe culprit is the heavy coaxial cable from antenna, which is putting too much force on delicate MCX connector.
The MCX is either damaged or it's central pin is not making proper contact with dongle's center hole due to pulling or bending force of heavy coaxial cable.
To reduce pressure on delicate MCX connector, the MCX should be connected to say 30 cm or more of thin coaxial cable, and other end of thin coaxial cable should be joined with the heavy coaxial cable from antenna. See Photo below:
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.RTL SDR : T-VEVZ1
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Originally posted by charan View PostYep ordered 10 meter cable with booster lets see..!
Did you have any success with a really simple antenna?
The reason I'm asking is so we can see if the problem is actually the antenna or if you have a bad dongle
- the way to do this is to simplify the installation, then later when we are sure that it does work we can look to improve it.
Adding complexity early on might just hide the fault.
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Originally posted by peterhr View PostPeople have varying success with those, some use them all the time - when I tried one a memory stick would work on the powered USB extender, but the dongle wouldn't.
Did you have any success with a really simple antenna?
The reason I'm asking is so we can see if the problem is actually the antenna or if you have a bad dongle
- the way to do this is to simplify the installation, then later when we are sure that it does work we can look to improve it.
Adding complexity early on might just hide the fault.RTL SDR : T-VEVZ1
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Originally posted by charan View Postyup i made a simple single coaxial lead as antenna and hooked it directly into mcx female of dongle im getting planes over 100km.. so is definitely coaxial fault i would say :/
Try to use a NEW MCX MALE Connector with longer thin pigtail.
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Originally posted by abcd567 View PostThat gives a strong possibility that MCX MALE Connector's center pin is not touching the Center contact of DONGLE's MCX FEMALE.
Try to use a NEW MCX MALE Connector with longer thin pigtail.For official support use Contact Form
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Try this
Making an inexpensive collinear antenna suitable for 1090MHz ADS-B decoding with RTL-SDR dongles and RTL1090 or ADSB# as well as dedicated virtual radar syst...
go for 8? elements, temporarily tape the antenna to a bamboo pole - then read through the notes in this section on what to put at the top end of the antenna for maximum sensitivity.
I built one of these and was picking up planes at over 300km
once you are satisfied - seal it in a thin PVC tube to weather proof it.
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Hit the proverble gold at work today, i spotted a signal analyser at work (hadn't noticed it before) that has a tracking generator in it, work are using it for EMC work. So with the addition of a directional coupler i could be tuning aerials that alone made me pretty happy.
Then to top it off i was chatting to another person about it (the only engineer i know to do any antenna work) and it turns out we have a vector network anayliser that goes upto 3GHz.
I'm quite happy with my current aerial but i'm looking forward to making some just for the learning.T-EGLF8
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Originally posted by Amper View Posti think he should make one of yours antennas(co-co...etc). single coax is not antenna. i cant find those images you uploaded in this topic
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