What's in your WarDriving Kit?

[krom3bon3]

MaxRad Antenna connector options

I am wondering what connector option to get on the Maxrad antenna. If I order this antenna:


- Maxrad 2.4GHz 5dB Gain Omni-Directional Antenna w/ 12' RG174U coax

do I get the Male N (part #NCP with ML195 cable) or the Male N (part #UN with ML100 cable). Then do I use a

N Female to MMCX Adapter

to connect to the Orinoco Gold card? Does the adapter come from Maxrad or somewhere else? Any help on this would be great!

[blackwave]

Re: MaxRad Antenna connector options

Originally posted by krom3bon3
to connect to the Orinoco Gold card?

Most antenna kits that I have seen come with the N-Type Female connector on an LMR-240 cable.

The pigtail would be an N-Type Male connector on an LMR-100A coax, and on the other end you would have the ORiNOCO/Avaya proprietary connector.

If you aren't already aware you can get a Stumbler Special from Borg Man on his fab-corp site for an antenna and a pigtail. http://www.fab-corp.com/K1.htm just mention Stumbler Special in your order.

Otherwise you can check out Fungus' store and get a good deal there. http://www.stores.ebay.com/id=5541302

[converge]

For the sake of area coverage.. would teams be wise to go with multiple directionals, or is the mag omni mount pretty much the way to go for stumbling in general? Also, can one antenna be used for multiple orinoco/clone/11b cards, or is it best/only one per?

Rounding out my stumbling abilities before the end of the month...

[blackwave]

Originally posted by c0nv3r9
For the sake of area coverage.. would teams be wise to go with multiple directionals, or is the mag omni mount pretty much the way to go for stumbling in general? Also, can one antenna be used for multiple orinoco/clone/11b cards, or is it best/only one per?

Rounding out my stumbling abilities before the end of the month...

Multiple directionals would certainly by theory gain more coverage. Depending on the directional you may actually get a lot more coverage, and even overlap, which never hurts... With omni's everyone gets pretty much the same coverage...

One antenna per would be best, the connectors required to add them will drop the gain to where it more hinders than helps.

.... no fair giving away all the secrets?

[converge]

Thats a rather blunt secret to try and keep. I'm just wondering how I'll explain my equipment to security at the airport...

And splitting it does what I thought it would do to the gain (starts looking at checkbook) Is there an issue with not mounting directionals? I know all pictures I see of them have them securely fastened and bolted; something the driver / car owner probably will take offense to.. heheh

[blackwave]

Originally posted by c0nv3r9
Thats a rather blunt secret to try and keep. I'm just wondering how I'll explain my equipment to security at the airport...

if you make a pringles antenna, don't cover it up in black tape and velcro... that makes it look like a lethal pipe bomb, I have seen quite a few that looks like this.

Originally posted by c0nv3r9

And splitting it does what I thought it would do to the gain (starts looking at checkbook) Is there an issue with not mounting directionals?

Directionals are as accurate as to what they are pointed to. You don't need to mount them, but your arms may get tired after a few minutes. You can get something like that is X shaped and mount one on each segment giving you four directionals.. and either mount that on top of your vehicle.. or try to put it inside without decapitating anyone..

[astcell]

Most airport security won't freak at the stuff under x-ray, it does not fit what they are searching for, so they pass it by. Besides if you see the news, you know they like to strip search 80 year old women instead!

[Temtel]

Didn't notice if anyone was using Cisco cards or Wellenreiter. Here's my kit:

Hardware:
Compaq armada 1750, 128mb ram
Cisco Aeronet 352 w/ external antena connector
sector-pannel directional antenna w/ 6-inch pigtail, 11"x5" size, 11.5db gain, 120x90degree signal spread.
Velcro sticks it to my car or to the LCD pannel on the laptop.
5-foot coax extention (for car use)
No GPS (yet)

Linux kernel 2.4.18 (I think it started out as Mandrake, but there's not much left of it...)
Modified aeronet driver allows command to put card in rfmon mode.
Ethereal for permiscuous capture & TCP reassembly
Wellenreiter for random-mac stumbling.

[blackwave]

Originally posted by Temtel

Cisco Aeronet 352 w/ external antena connector

That is a sweet card, for some reason it has evaded my collection of prism based cards... I think I bought a ton of cheap prisms to make up for the cisco. Wish they would make one that had both external and internal like the ORiNOCO..

[dataworm]

Originally posted by blackwave


That is a sweet card, for some reason it has evaded my collection of prism based cards... I think I bought a ton of cheap prisms to make up for the cisco. Wish they would make one that had both external and internal like the ORiNOCO..

is't AIR-LMC35x what you just described?! Beside that card can 2 external antennas instead of only 1 and they are optional so i guess it been it come with a internal antenna.

[blackwave]

Originally posted by dataworm


is't AIR-LMC35x what you just described?! Beside that card can 2 external antennas instead of only 1 and they are optional so i guess it been it come with a internal antenna.

No. The ORiNOCO has BOTH an EXTERNAL JACK, as well as an INTERNAL antenna, and only uses either/or but not both at the same time. The Cisco Cards do not. Those that come with internal antennas do not have external jacks. Those with external jacks do not come with internal antennas. Here is CISCO's wireless link for the Cisco Aironet 350 Series Client Adapters

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/...at/ao350ca.htm

Antenna
AIR-PCM35x: Integrated diversity dipoles

AIR-LMC35x: Two MMCX connectors (antennas optional, none supplied with unit)

AIR-PCI35x: External, removable 2.2 dBi Dipole with RP-TNC Connector

[astcell]

Dang my 340 series is already end of life. The 350 looks about the same, that won't last long I bet.

[blackwave]

Originally posted by astcell
Dang my 340 series is already end of life. The 350 looks about the same, that won't last long I bet.

802.11b is quite crowded, lets move along the 802.11x

[astcell]

I remember having 802.11b before anyone else. Heck I remember having a one channel FRS radio that was $200 before anyone else, and the channel was all MINE!

Hard to imagine that at one time the Internet only had 12 people on it.

[blackwave]

Originally posted by astcell
Hard to imagine that at one time the Internet only had 12 people on it.

I can't justify spending 50G's a year for Internet2... i wonder how many entities are on that?