better antenna for a USB DVB-T dongle?

[Evgeniy Ginzburg]

TV dongles use MCX connector.
Truy one of those to connect to wal plug
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=mcx+to+Belling-Lee
There is can be impedance mismach but
with one of such connectors you also can buy bigger antennae that connect
to standart jack if roof antenna won't work good.

And when you tired of TV use oyur dongle as SDR it's uch more fun.


On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm asking here since I saw that quiet a few members here mentioned using
> things like this in the past.
>
> I bought a USB DVB dongle for my Cubox-I running OpenELEC (here is the
> item on ebay: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/251537079924) and although it's
> well supported and the kernel recognises it without a hitch, scanning for
> channels (both through tvheadend and command line w_scan) can't lock on any
> channels.
>
> I live less than 2 km from the antennas which broadcast to all of Sydney
> (~80km radius service area).
>
> According to the instructions at http://baratel.com/guides/mythTV.htm,
> the internal antenna which comes with such dongles is worthless for more
> than 500m.
>
> But the antenna input socket is not the standard wide one (e.g. like the
> one you can see in this wikipedia image:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaxial_cable#mediaviewer/File:N_Connector.jpg)
> but something that looks like 1 mm headphone jack with an itsy bitsy hole
> in the middle.
>
> Does anyone know how can I extend the reception for this baby?
>
> I think of two main options:
>
> 1. Connect it to "normal"/"common" coaxial wall socket, so I can take
> advantage of the antenna on the roof.
> 2. Buy a bigger internal antenna which can connect to this weird jack.
>
> Any pointers would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Amos
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So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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