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I have posted on here before and found the member's comments very
helpful so here it goes again. I am trying to stack two Yagi antennas to form a ground station to receive GPS data from an experimental rocket. The rocket portion of the system has already been tested but now I have two antennas to couple together to make up the receiving end. The particulars are as follows: I have two 11 db 900 MHz Yagis (Pacific Wireless), both of which have 50 ohm pigtails. I am trying to hook these together in a cross polarized fashion and need to insert two 75 ohm impedance matching cables so that I end up with 50 ohms at the cable end attached to the input of my receiver. Basically, there will be the two antennas, matching sections, a tee connector, then the single coax going to the receiver. I figure that 75 ohm RG-11 coax should work for this purpose and am trying to calculate the correct length of these impedance matching sections. One formula I have found online is as follows: Length (feet) = 246 * VF / Frequency (MHz) The transmitter sends RF via Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum from 910 to 918 MHz; consequently, I am using 914 MHz as a baseline. When I plug in the numbers, I get a length of about 2.1" for the length of the 75 ohm matching sections. Needless to say, it will be difficult if not impossible to do a 2.1" length of RG-11 cable with two connectors. I have considered basically fabricating a "tee" section out of two short lengths of the 75 ohm coax and RG-8 going to the receiver (soldering the whole thing together), then connecting the two Yagi antennas to that. I suppose my question is this: Is there a longer multiple of wavelength I can use for the impedance matching 75 ohm sections to develop a more practical design for what I need? Or, am I stuck with the 2.1" length due to the frequency? Thanks, Curt Newport |
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