More ADS-B antenna fooling aorund.

Instead of buying a whole new ADS-B antenna to fix the cable problem, I just spent around an hour this weekend in the attic affixing a new connector onto the end of the much-shortened cable (there was quite a bit of slack). My performance improved almost immediately (and the range seems a little better), but we'll give it a week or so to settle out before making more changes (like adding in the splitter).

Soldering tiny connectors while sitting cross-legged on the attic floor was made more bearable by...

1. ADEQUATE LIGHTING.
2. Bringing up a board that I could clamp a small pair of "helping hands" to and do some cutting on.
3. Taking a break halfway through to go retrieve my desk lamp with magnifying glass insert so I could stop trying various combinations of glasses and squinting and actually see what I was working on.

The crimper was not designed for this particular type of connector, so it was just sort of adequate but the numbers don't lie.  I may give it another whirl or just add the splitter in next weekend and see if my numbers suffer measurably.  UAT isn't SUPER popular around here, but it does seem to be catching on with the recreational set.