Akavishon
Member III
So I bought myself a little UBS wifi adaptor which accepts a coax cable for an external antenna ...works like a charm, even with the tiny 'duck' antenna that came with it.
I figure it would work even better if it had a real antenna mounted externally, maybe on some high point on the boat ... the mast head, maybe? So as I was looking up in that direction, a strange voice said 'why not just use the vhf antenna for wifi'? Not simultanously, of course, but maybe with a switch that feeds either the vhf, or the wifi?
Seriously, has anyone tried that? Is there any real reason it would not work, provided I find a way to plug the vhf antenna into my USB wifi adaptor? Naively, I'm imagining that an antenna is really just a piece of wire, so why wouldn't it work?
I figure it would work even better if it had a real antenna mounted externally, maybe on some high point on the boat ... the mast head, maybe? So as I was looking up in that direction, a strange voice said 'why not just use the vhf antenna for wifi'? Not simultanously, of course, but maybe with a switch that feeds either the vhf, or the wifi?
Seriously, has anyone tried that? Is there any real reason it would not work, provided I find a way to plug the vhf antenna into my USB wifi adaptor? Naively, I'm imagining that an antenna is really just a piece of wire, so why wouldn't it work?