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Day: June 7, 2006

Laptop External Antenna Mod

June 7, 2006 by Eliot 22 Comments

antenna mod

Yes. [Minh-Tam]’s addition of an external antenna to his Dell Latitude C840 is incredibly easy. We don’t remember seeing anyone else attempt this though. Minh-Tam has done it the “correct” way by using a pigtail so he should have minimal loss and get a lot more use out of his 9dB external antenna.

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