When I switch my buddy’s installation to the Poynting XPOL-2-5G antennas we’ll have a problem: With 15 feet of coax we’d be obliged to move the modem up to about 15-20 feet off the floor. Not a show-stopper, but not particularly convenient for access.
Plus: The higher we mount it on the wall, the warmer it’ll be in summertime. Semiconductors + heat = bad.
I think the little additional attenuation hit we’d take from adding 5-6 foot extensions wouldn’t hurt much. Problem is: I can’t find anybody that sells short LMR-200 or LMR-195 SMA Male/SMA Female extensions.
Anybody have any recommendations?
I’ve half a mind to try to buy the coax, myself, and the crimp-on connectors, buy the appropriate die set for my Paladin crimpers, and fabricate my own.
I can’t vouch for them personally other than fast shipping, I have only ordered one cable from them and haven’t used it yet but have heard good things.
Yikes! $37 for a five-foot cable? I think we’ll just keep the 15-footers from our Peplink vendor, I’ll cut 'em to length, and re-terminate them myself–all for a fraction of the cost.
Thanks for the pointer, anyway!
I’ve done lots of coax cable termination over the years, between my CB radio, Ham radio, and 10base2 (coaxial Ethernet) days
Turns out I even already own the correct die set for crimping the ferrules–from when I had to lop-off the connector for our boat’s GPS antenna coax to route it through a cable gland on the transom, and re-terminate it.
That’s what I once thought. Then I found out properly-executed crimps are regarded by many to be mechanically superior to soldering–particularly in applications with environmental and mechanical extremes. Found that out when I looked into an extensive boat rewiring project.
