Orinoco Gold Antenna Pigtail Probs?

tem84 · 03-24-2003

Anyone else have problems with the small connector on the PC Card end of the orinogo gold pigtail? I've had it for about 4 days now and its been under almost no stress, but 3 of the 4 outer bracing pins have come off. Just curious if anyone else has had this problem?

At the moment i have it taped onto the card in a very unprofessional mannor

Thinking of calling them for an RMA but i really dunno about that one. I used to write up RMAs and i'd allways think to myself 'god these people need to get a life'.

blackwave · 03-24-2003

welcome to the club

tem84 · 03-24-2003

its a flawed design, id rather it be a screw in connector but thats just me

Comput4rJLT · 03-24-2003

I bought a cheap $25 ebay 5.5db omni w/ MC connector on it....

it is doing great; and i haven't been 100% careful with it all the time either

I love my cheap omni

TheSovereign · 03-24-2003

i bought about 4 pigtails
ive yet to brake one......then again im not removing them
they are all stationary

CalebTG · 03-25-2003

Put my pigtail in mine the first time, and when I pulled it out, one of the four outter clip/spokes broke off.

Since then, none have broken, but it doesn't have a solid hold either, I just try to baby it now.

jeffrowe · 03-25-2003

The gold connector extention coming out of the tip of the connector came off and stuck into my Lucent card... I could still plug the cable in and get wifi reception so I just considered it a mild pain in the butt...

Then one day, it ceased working... the antenna simply didnt help a single bit over the internal antenna...

In trying to figure out what went wrong, the gold bit broke completely and the pigtail was useless...

I bought a new fabcorp 60" Pigtail, to make use of cantenna's without having to do wierd balancing acts and such... and with it I ordered a replacement MC connector for my old pigtail...

suprisingly, despite thier mention of needed 'experience' with these connectors, it was easy as hell... the hardest part was when i realised that they drop a little solder into the damn connector hold on the back to hold the center conductor in place...
On a side note, the cable works as well as ever, but I have yet to figure out how to install the damn little circle plug into the back of the mc connector... I think i need some kind of tamper or soemthing... who knows?

mdelatorre · 09-15-2003

Quote:

Originally posted by jeffrowe
suprisingly, despite thier mention of needed 'experience' with these connectors, it was easy as hell... the hardest part was so

Jeffrowe,

I think I am also new to the club of broken MC connectors. I am interested in fixing my pigtail, but it looks for what I have read that I need a special crimp tool and a very fine tip for my solder.

Did you use any of these special tools to fix your pigtail?

MET.

03-24-2003	#1 (permalink)
tem84 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: London, Ontario, Canada Posts: 39	Orinoco Gold Antenna Pigtail Probs? Anyone else have problems with the small connector on the PC Card end of the orinogo gold pigtail? I've had it for about 4 days now and its been under almost no stress, but 3 of the 4 outer bracing pins have come off. Just curious if anyone else has had this problem? At the moment i have it taped onto the card in a very unprofessional mannor Thinking of calling them for an RMA but i really dunno about that one. I used to write up RMAs and i'd allways think to myself 'god these people need to get a life'.

03-24-2003	#2 (permalink)
blackwave Do I look like I'm joking Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: SoCal, OC Posts: 4,507	welcome to the club __________________ -=BW=-

03-24-2003	#4 (permalink)
Comput4rJLT Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Texas Posts: 57	I bought a cheap $25 ebay 5.5db omni w/ MC connector on it.... it is doing great; and i haven't been 100% careful with it all the time either I love my cheap omni __________________ Toshiba E740 running PocketWarrior and WinC - SOLD Itronix armored 486 laptop runing W95 and netstumbler Compaq Armada E700 dualbooting w/ xp pro and slackware 8.1 - running netstumbler and soon will be running kismet/airsnort/etc...

03-24-2003	#5 (permalink)
TheSovereign Master of the universe Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: chicago Posts: 658	i bought about 4 pigtails ive yet to brake one......then again im not removing them they are all stationary __________________ SO SAYS TheSovereign

03-25-2003	#7 (permalink)
jeffrowe Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Northern Suburbs, Chicago, IL Posts: 142	fixed my 19" pigtail The gold connector extention coming out of the tip of the connector came off and stuck into my Lucent card... I could still plug the cable in and get wifi reception so I just considered it a mild pain in the butt... Then one day, it ceased working... the antenna simply didnt help a single bit over the internal antenna... In trying to figure out what went wrong, the gold bit broke completely and the pigtail was useless... I bought a new fabcorp 60" Pigtail, to make use of cantenna's without having to do wierd balancing acts and such... and with it I ordered a replacement MC connector for my old pigtail... suprisingly, despite thier mention of needed 'experience' with these connectors, it was easy as hell... the hardest part was when i realised that they drop a little solder into the damn connector hold on the back to hold the center conductor in place... On a side note, the cable works as well as ever, but I have yet to figure out how to install the damn little circle plug into the back of the mc connector... I think i need some kind of tamper or soemthing... who knows? __________________ -Jeffrowe

03-24-2003	#3 (permalink)
tem84 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: London, Ontario, Canada Posts: 39	its a flawed design, id rather it be a screw in connector but thats just me

03-25-2003	#6 (permalink)
CalebTG Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 2	Put my pigtail in mine the first time, and when I pulled it out, one of the four outter clip/spokes broke off. Since then, none have broken, but it doesn't have a solid hold either, I just try to baby it now.

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