Well i decided to start on my carputer again agter a summer break, first on the chopping block wes my lan and gps, i want the best reception so i got a 8db gain antenna and began to think on how to make a internal antenna external... i stole a external gps/gsm antenna from work ment for a volvo truck(aprox. $300) and gutted it, Im going to mount it on my roof later. the gsm works on a 1.1GHz and wifi forks on 2GHz so i had to scrap the antenna, and i bought the holox usb gps mouse off ebay, since i couldnt get it to work that had to go too. there was a bunch of cerketry in there that was pretty useless, lol.
this is a pic of the antenna befor the butchery and durring, originaly i was going to have the gps under the dash and i was going to use the antenna for my tv, but im going to intergrate the tv antennas into the side rear windows in the form of de-fogger strips insted.
here is a pic of the antennas still put together
here is a pic of the antenna with the rubber boot taken off, the antenna is junk and the boot i used to make the indoor a outdoor. also note the thickness differance, the original is 2mm thick and the new one is 12mm thick, thats a bit of a differnce, i ended up scooping the excess rubber by drilling it out with progresivly bigger bits since the sidewall was quite thick.
and here is a nice Pic of the inside with all the useless junk, at this point i decided that the mouce dasnt doing to fit inside eaven with everything removed. so i had a choice modift the antenna housing or tare apart the gps mouse...
I chose the mouse. HA HA HA FUN!
I went midevil on it can opener stiyle..... OH YA! THATS RIGHT I'M NUTZ