Continuity between antenna's two solder pads

[Dsnap69]

Should you have continuity between the to solder pads after you remove an antenna, on either 2.4ghz or 5ghz wifi cards? I attached couple pics. It's obvious in the picture which pads I'm talking about because you're pretty much dead center in the pictures.

Thank you

Douglas

 

[wafflejock]

No the two parts soldered down from an antenna are 1 GND for the shielding and 2 the typically solid wire for the antenna itself which should be hooked to the output of the amplifier circuit so I don't think you should have continuity between them if everything is removed.

 

[wafflejock]

You may need to clean up the board with some flux remover to see better if there are any bits of metal connecting the two pads but I wouldn't expect them to be connected.