[MLB-WIRELESS] Highest gain antenna (was: Orientation of antenna)

Robbie Werner rwerner at bigpond.net.au
Mon Jul 15 15:12:16 EST 2002


That's just got me thinking...  What would be the highest gain homebrew
antenna design?  Is it the Hecker Helical?  Would it be better than my
modded 24dB Galaxy?

-Rob


on 15/7/02 3:00 PM, darrend at ndpgroup.com.au at darrend at ndpgroup.com.au
wrote:

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> Tony, Jase's design is a directional helical. ie a circularly polarised
> version of a galaxy. If you mount it vertically you'll get a geat signal
> from the moon, but thats about it!
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> What are they feeding you guys up there?
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> Jase, whats the side lobe performance like? :)
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> ps you can check my version of it at http://www.ndpgroup.com.au/wireless/
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> Darren Dreis
> IT Manager
> NDP Consulting
> Tel 03 9548 9444  Fax 03 9548 9040
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> "Tony Smith"     
> <tony at tonsyl.org>               To:     "Melb Wireless"
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> antennas  
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> 15/07/2002 02:35 PM
> Please respond to "Tony
> Smith"           
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> Here is a really, really dumb question.
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> I've just installed two helical antennas made to Jason Hecker's design.
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> I've installed them "upright" becuase this is the logical thing to do and
> nothing in Jason's instructions says to do any different.
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> Been looking at a few other sites today, one of them is openly (with full
> atribution and gratitiude) a version of Jason's design. The photos of the
> completed antenna shows it installed horizontal.
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> Am I missing something?
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> Cheers
> 
> Tony Smith
> 
> Connected to the internet in Sunny Far North Queensland Australia
> http://www.tonsyl.org
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