{"id":117,"date":"2004-08-05T22:37:45","date_gmt":"2004-08-05T22:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewebgal.com\/wordpress\/?p=117"},"modified":"2004-08-05T22:37:45","modified_gmt":"2004-08-05T22:37:45","slug":"a-tight-beam-to-my-tuner-more-wifi-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"A tight beam to my tuner! (More WiFi Fun!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photobody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/gfx\/blogpix\/G4connector34.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" border=\"0\" alt=\"photo of the pigtail and connector inside my G4  Powermac\" \/><\/div>\n<p> I checked inside my G4 PowerMac to confirm the little pigtail with a 90 connector that&#8217;s plugged into my Airport Extreme (802.11g) card.<br \/>\nMy plan is to build a high gain cantenna, connect it to my powermac instead of the existing Omnidirectional internal antenna, and use it to feed a focused beam to the Airport Express downstair on my stereo.<br \/>\nSee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlewireless.net\/index.cgi\/CookieCantenna\"> Pepperidge Farm Cookie Cantenna with a 15-18dB gain!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p> So I checked my old ham junkbox yesterday and found a bulkhead N connector &#8211; I got a can of Pepperidge Farm Pirouette cookies when I did the groceries today &#8211; and I ordered a 60&#8243; pigtail (MC-Card connector to N) a few moments ago! About $30 for the pieces (mostly the pigtail). I&#8217;ll make a little mount from an old gooseneck microphone stand. With any luck I&#8217;ll get the pieces late next week and  maybe get a chance to try all this out in the next couple weeks.\n<\/p>\n<p> Lotta work for an automated (computer) radio station &#8230;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I checked inside my G4 PowerMac to confirm the little pigtail with a 90 connector that&#8217;s plugged into my Airport Extreme (802.11g) card. My plan is to build a high gain cantenna, connect it to my powermac instead of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/?p=117\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wifi-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewebgal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}