What kind of Antenna connector is this?

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antok86

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i recently bought a trendnet TEW-647GA adapter. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833156258 i was getting a weak signal so i thought of prying it open to see what kind of antenna connections i can add if any. im assuming these are connections for antennas?
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there are two of these one on each side of the board. the pigtails i have are different as shown in the picture
 
from experience disassembling and fixing laptops I can safely say that it's commonly found as the antenna connector inside them that attaches to the wlan card...

I'm not aware of the name though.
 
mattjw916 said:
from experience disassembling and fixing laptops I can safely say that it's commonly found as the antenna connector inside them that attaches to the wlan card...

I'm not aware of the name though.
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i dont think thats the one. the ones usually used in laptops are connectors that look like a male which has a middle post. this one has a hole in it
 
anybody know where i can just solder the pigtail leads to this connector
 
It's definitely not RP-SMA. That's the connector used on many external antenna connections.

It looks almost like some sort of reverse Hirose U.FL (commonly found on laptop WLAN cards/antennas).
 
antok86 said:
i dont think thats the one. the ones usually used in laptops are connectors that look like a male which has a middle post. this one has a hole in it
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you're right, I never really looked that closely at the middle before you mentioned it...
 
ghost6303 said:
its SMD, not thru-hole, so you would have to remove the on-board connector there and solder to the pads underneath it.
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this is what i was thinking or scraping the pcb till i got to the antenna underneath the pcb then solder the pigtail to it
 
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