John Graham-Cumming posts the instructions for creating this coffee cantenna using a piece of coat hanger, a Wi-Fi antenna extension cable, and a Type N socket and plug. You'll need an empty ...

to capture signals and focus them onto the PCB antenna in a USB WiFi dongle. The strainer is drilled out, and a USB extension cable has its female end glued into the base. This allows the dongle ...

but the antenna can't move any further as is. So I was wondering if the cables it uses are a standard type (they sort of look like the mini-bnc connectors we use on certain video i/o cards).