Received a few MMCX jacks today and they go on great. It’s the Molex 73415-2061 50 ohms vertical surface mount MMCX jack, which I selected primarily because it was the cheapest one on mouser. You’ve really got to be comfortable with hot air rework to get it on. Presumably only the 2017 V1.0 goTenna Mesh board has a place for this connector?
Preliminary tests are good, but I don’t have a scope that goes to 1Ghz or an appropriate down converter to really test it out. I suppose my next step is to remove that little passive sitting between the amplifier and the PCB antenna to verify that the external antenna really is being used when selected.
Waiting on some parts from China. Hoping to use an MMCX to bulkhead SMA pigtail to have a weatherproof, and clean, antenna pass-through for a relay node that’ll sit on my roof.
