Adam, before you get all wound up over building a system from scratch, why
not consult some security and alarm companies, and see what they have
available...?

- KI6PR

"erdem" wrote
I am trying to build rf transmitter and receiver that could transfer
information (doors open closed, light on, etc, etc) from my car in the
parking lot to my office desk. The distance is about 100m. I would
like to have the receiver to be very small-key chain size. Therefore I
thought high frequency might result in a smaller antenna. Most
probably bandwidth will be very small (I do not need high speed data
transfer). I am not sure about the polarization issue. About the
power, that depends on the design, most probably. I am planning to use
the IC from; http://www.maxim-ic.com/Wireless.cfm

Is it possible to do this kind of a device that small?

Adam



" Stephen Cowell" wrote in message
...
"erdem" wrote in message
m...
Actually I am not trying to design antennas ( 500Mhz to 1Ghz- I guess
this gives you information about what sort they are), I am trying to
buy them on a pcb or small chips that could be mounted on a PCB.

Your wavelength of interest is 3cm at a minimum...
you're trying to put them into a box smaller than
that.

How much gain should this antenna have? How
broad-banded does it have to be? How much
power does it have to handle? What kind of
polarization do I want? These are basic
questions you should answer.
__
Steve
KI5YG/EA
.

I am trying to build rf transmitter and receiver that could transfer
information (doors open closed, light on, etc, etc) from my car in the
parking lot to my office desk. The distance is about 100m. I would
like to have the receiver to be very small-key chain size. Therefore I
thought high frequency might result in a smaller antenna. Most
probably bandwidth will be very small (I do not need high speed data
transfer). I am not sure about the polarization issue. About the
power, that depends on the design, most probably. I am planning to use
the IC from; http://www.maxim-ic.com/Wireless.cfm

Is it possible to do this kind of a device that small?

Adam



" Stephen Cowell" wrote in message ...
"erdem" wrote in message
m...
Actually I am not trying to design antennas ( 500Mhz to 1Ghz- I guess
this gives you information about what sort they are), I am trying to
buy them on a pcb or small chips that could be mounted on a PCB.

Your wavelength of interest is 3cm at a minimum...
you're trying to put them into a box smaller than
that.

How much gain should this antenna have? How
broad-banded does it have to be? How much
power does it have to handle? What kind of
polarization do I want? These are basic
questions you should answer.
__
Steve
KI5YG/EA
.

"erdem" wrote in message
m...
Actually I am not trying to design antennas ( 500Mhz to 1Ghz- I guess
this gives you information about what sort they are), I am trying to
buy them on a pcb or small chips that could be mounted on a PCB.

Your wavelength of interest is 3cm at a minimum...
you're trying to put them into a box smaller than
that.

How much gain should this antenna have? How
broad-banded does it have to be? How much
power does it have to handle? What kind of
polarization do I want? These are basic
questions you should answer.
__
Steve
KI5YG/EA
..

JOE wrote:
What other sorts of antennas are there exactly? Audio? Light?
Tactile? Thought they ALL were RF in nature.... could be wrong....

Yep, you are wrong. Insects had antenna millions of years before man
ever walked the earth. In fact, the word "antenna" comes directly
from the insect world and was adopted for RF antennas, because they
reminded someone of insect antenna.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp



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Actually I am not trying to design antennas ( 500Mhz to 1Ghz- I guess
this gives you information about what sort they are), I am trying to
buy them on a pcb or small chips that could be mounted on a PCB.

Thanks,
Adam


"JOE" wrote in message ...
What other sorts of antennas are there exactly? Audio? Light?
Tactile?

Thought they ALL were RF in nature....

could be wrong....

JOE


"erdem" wrote in message
om...
Hi all,

I am looking for rf antennas that could fit into a 1" by 1" plastic
case, operating frequency 500Mhz. They could also be pcb antennas.
Could you suggest me some places to lookfor?

Thanks,
Adam

" I am looking for rf antennas that could fit into a 1" by 1" plastic
case, operating frequency 500Mhz. They could also be pcb antennas.
Could you suggest me some places to lookfor?


Microstrip Antennas, D. M. Pozar, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 80 No. 1,
January, 1992, page 79 et seq

Or go the Patent Office website (www.uspto.gov) and search for patents
issued to Martin V. Schneider.

73 de W2GERry

What other sorts of antennas are there exactly? Audio? Light?
Tactile?

Thought they ALL were RF in nature....

could be wrong....

JOE


"erdem" wrote in message
om...
Hi all,

I am looking for rf antennas that could fit into a 1" by 1" plastic
case, operating frequency 500Mhz. They could also be pcb antennas.
Could you suggest me some places to lookfor?

Thanks,
Adam