Comment by healthyfatboy on July 26, 2012 at 4:58pm

The second one doesn't look like a PRO module but the normal, lower power modules that can't use SMA.

Look through the images here. You'll see what the varios ones look like for Series 2 modules.

http://www.sparkfun.com/search/results?term=xbee+series+2&what=...

You do understand that theses pictures you have are Series 2 but the ones used on all the APM gear are Series 1. They aren't compatible with one another and the Series 2 take a lot more work to get them to talk serial to each other. Series 1 is basically plug and play.

Comment by Krzysztof Bosak on July 27, 2012 at 4:26am

healthyfatboy you haven't browsed your own reference?

WRL-08742

High power, no SMA. Same model but with SMA is long time out of stock, but you get one in devkit package (which I have and I know it is well XBEE Series 1) so I know it existed once. XBEE uses certain mixture of two types of PCBs and puts onto them S1(xbee, xbee pro) or S2(xbee-zigbee) non-compatible chips.

Clearly S1 and S2 are not compatible but I am asking about PCB layout only.

Now back to subject. PCBs. How to solder SMA onto second one without burning modem's output stage, if possible?

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