Thread: Those using D-Link USB radios. Question.

Cheers. Figured there would be some splicing. I just wondered if some onad located a Car antenna to RCA adaptor or cable somewhere.

On the buzz front, try this.
"Unplug the antenna lead at the antenna in the trunk.
Measure back from the connector about 12 inches. Carefully cut the
insulation to expose the woven co-ax wire underneath.
Wrap some 8 gauge wire around the exposed woven co-ax wire and solder
together.
Cover and insulate the connection.
Attach the other end of the 8 gauge wire to the antenna mounting
bracket with a ring terminal. If you don't do the ground wire fix
above, I'd suggest testing the antenna to body ground connection and
repair bad grounds there if necessary."

it's actually from a Saab Newsgroup posting, about bad AM reception, but it could apply with noise generally.

Noise tends to be grounding issues. If the case is grounded, then look at the antenna. Maybe even pop open the Dlink, and find somewhere there to ground the antenna connection to the car chassis?

But cheers for the splicing tip. Wonder if I could get a naked RCA plug, and wired it to a length of Coax, or make a new cable from a cut off antenna cable, and get some kind of source splitter (so one antenna coudl feed several sources), so I don't have to butcher the original antenna cable?

I think it has something to do with the drivers. I think I saw on the site for Radiator that it is essentially a Gemtek USB radio underneith, and their drivers work.

Do a search for a radiator, supposed to be a very good piece of radio software.

I would be using it under 2k, rather than XP though, so I hopefully won't have that problem.