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Curtain Quad - Real gain or antenna snake oil?
On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 20:59:34 -0500, amdx wrote:
His curtain quad calculations and NEC2 deck are at: http://home.comcast.net/~ross_anderson/CurtainQuadFigure11.htm Ah.. I'm still confused, For the 1296 antenna he used 2" x 3" fence material and then the same 2" x 3" for the 2.4Ghz antenna except for wire diameter. Mikek That's just the reflector material. Quoting from the above URL: "The antenna is constructed from 3 inch by 2 inch galvanized welded wire fence. Wire radius is 0.039 inch." The reflector is not sensitive to the wire spacing as long as it's sufficiently small. You could use chicken wire, wire mesh, metal window bug screening, a barbeque grill, etc for the reflector. I used some gastly 1/4" galvanized wire mesh, covered with aluminum foil. For 1.2Ghz, his relfector is 28x21 inches. For 2.4Ghz: http://home.comcast.net/~ross_anderson/2400MHzAntenna.htm he didn't mention the size of the reflector, but it would half the size of the 1.2GHz reflector. -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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Curtain Quad - Real gain or antenna snake oil?
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:12:43 -0500, John S
wrote: Sorry Jeff, I need to try again, Either I'm doing a very poor job of explaining my lack of understanding or maybe we are looking at two different pages. If you look here; http://home.comcast.net/~ross_anders...MHzAntenna.htm you will see the FENCE is used as the ANTENNA ELEMENTS and aluminum foil used as the reflector. But the fence loops seem to me to be the same size for both 1296Mhz and 2.4Ghz antenna. Mikek I concur with your observation, Mikek. It may be that Jeff has looked only at the first listed reflector which was identical to the antenna itself. Both the 1296 and 2.4gHz antennas use the same fencing material. John - KD5YI Nope, my mistake. Brain damage and assumption on my part. http://home.comcast.net/~ross_anderson/CurtainQuadFigure11.htm http://home.comcast.net/~ross_anderson/2400MHzAntenna.htm I didn't use the recommended fencing material. Instead, I made mine from some #16 awg solid copper wire, soldering the junctions together. When I built the 2.4GHz version, I scaled it from the 1.2GHz dimension, resulting in NOT using the 2x3" fencing material. I then built it without looking at the original article again. I'll dig deeper and see if I can find the 2.4GHz antenna and design data. That brings me back to the original question, which is how can both antennas be made from the same 2x3" fencing material. I'm not sure what's happening because the drawings are not fully dimensioned. I also just noticed that the grid paper shown do not match the dimensions listed in the NEC deck. Logic (and guesswork) would suggest that if the 2x3" mesh was used for 2.4GHz, then every other wire could be used on 1.2GHz, forming a 2x6" mesh. However, I can't tell from the dimensioning. I'll try to transplant the dimensions to a common drawing, and see if it can be decoded. Gone to do some chain sawing. More if I survive. -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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