Fluburtur
Cardboard Boy
Hello! Today I was a bit bored so I built a 5.8ghz biquad antenna following IBCrazy's
tutorial
The process is pretty simple even for something small like 5.8, my antenna is not very accurate but it works at least as good as the patch antenna that came with my VR D2 pro headset
Both antennas
Closeup of the biquad
I have learned a few things, the aluminium tape is hard to solder on and a stick antenna works well to do that (because I only had that)
Because I enjoyed making it I designed a mold in Fusion 360 to be 3d printed so those are easier to make, I made it parametric so I only need to input the frequency desired and the wire thickness and it does all the calculation.
However as I read more about those I saw stuff about coax cable and all being 50ohm and apparently needing to be a certain length because I guess there is a standing wave in it so if someone could light my lantern about that I would like it.
I will give you the stl files when I actually get the thing printed and a few antennas built to be sure that it works.
Guess antennas will be my new obsession now
tutorial
The process is pretty simple even for something small like 5.8, my antenna is not very accurate but it works at least as good as the patch antenna that came with my VR D2 pro headset
Both antennas
Closeup of the biquad
I have learned a few things, the aluminium tape is hard to solder on and a stick antenna works well to do that (because I only had that)
Because I enjoyed making it I designed a mold in Fusion 360 to be 3d printed so those are easier to make, I made it parametric so I only need to input the frequency desired and the wire thickness and it does all the calculation.
However as I read more about those I saw stuff about coax cable and all being 50ohm and apparently needing to be a certain length because I guess there is a standing wave in it so if someone could light my lantern about that I would like it.
I will give you the stl files when I actually get the thing printed and a few antennas built to be sure that it works.
Guess antennas will be my new obsession now
