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BUMP, can someone shed any light on this for me. Should i de-solder the smaller cable ? From what ive seen on other places with home made yagi like here : http://www.instructables.com/..... The driven elements are connected on one part of the loop, as i dont have a loop in mine just two plates, does this mean the smaller wire should be there, but should be soldered at the end to connect the two plates? Come on there must someone who knows how i can make this antenna work properly.

Hey, Hopefully someone could help me out, ive recently purchased a few wifi antennas for a few projects, i modded my dir 615 (dd-wrt) to have some bigger external antennas: Yeah overkill i know... However the yagi i got (which was only cheap), the signal is pretty poor even compared to a standard 6DBi antenna. When i opened it up, the powered elements were not aligned and off as skewed angles, so i straightened them out, however the signals still not great Forgive my bad drawing. As far as i can tell the incoming connector has each wire connected to one of the elements, however there is also this small wire which is about 1 and a bit inches long which has two cores which is connected with one of the wires onto each element as well. So my questions are. Am i correct in straitening out the elements to be square? Is the antenna wired properly? If so why is this little 2 inch wire in there? Hope someone answer my question :)