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Hi all I have bought a Yagi antenna from Hak5, a plneapple V and a alfa awuso36nha. I also went to Fry's ( chicago) only place I know for RP connectors and this is all they had. I bought : 1 a SMA female to SMA female barrel connector 2 a Reverse Polarity SMA Crimp Male (Plug) Connector With Female Pin product code RPA 2452p 3 Reverse Polarity SMA Plug R/A (female pin) product code RPA-2453P ready to be crimped. 4 extention cable 50ohm ( 7 feet) with rp-sma female and RP-sma male. 5 6 feet of rg58 53.5 ohm cable no connectors I was hoping that it would all fit together BUT here are the RP endings for the equipment. Pineapple V SMA female Yagi SMA male Alpha RP-sma female SO the Pineapple V connects to the YAGI perfectly ( as expected) BUT I only got about 3 feet of cable. SO I went out and bought ( without thinking) the extension cable (4) which doesn't help me. I can use connector 1 to hook the Yagi to the rp-sma MALE end of the extension cable but that does NOT fit the Pine V ( sma female) or the Alpha (RP sma FEMALE). NOW I could crimp 2 and 3 to 4 and extend the YAGI from the PineV but that would get me 13 feet of 50ohm cable and 3 adapter connections. I have no idea what that would do to the signal strength. Could someone please help me out and tell me if the extention cable is too long if I connect them together. ALSO is putting the YAGI onto the Alfa REALLY going to buy me anything? I live in Chicago and right now the Alpha is not doing well. I was hoping to improve it using the Yagi in a directional manner. ANY help would be appreciated.

I'm looking for a wifi antenna cable but I'm not sure what type of cable I should purchase. Are SMA and LMR compatible? Are there adapters? What are the parts called that I'm looking for? It's the kind of cable you connect a wireless device to one end and an antenna on the other. I want to run an antenna up a tree in the back 40 and maybe some other stuff. Are wifi cable and TV cable essentially the same except for the connector sizes? The pictures all look the same on Google. Anyway what parts do I need? LMR-200? is that what I'm looking for?

I recently received a Yagi antenna that I had purchased from the Hak Shop. Now I'm trying to figure out what I need to connect it to my alfa awus036h. I've attached a couple photos showing the yagi and alfa connectors. From the information I could gather from wikipedia, these have SMA Male (Yagi) and RP-SMA Female (Alfa). So to link these together I'd need a SMA Female to RP-SMA Male, correct? Is it common for the AWUS036H to have a RP-SMA Female connector? Just curious, since the connector between the alfa and yagi seems uncommon. Thanks.

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Found these guys on Amazon and they have a few different lengths of cable to choose from. I happen to need 15' N Plug (Male) to SMA Plug (Male) for a few of the antennas I already have. Like the backfire I got from radiolabs.com. Obviously these aren't for mobile applications. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_hi_1?me=A20TGAM4MIXTWN&rh=i%3Amerchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1382114859 Just thought I'd share.