evranch
Well-known member
Don't buy one that looks like this: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07C1611SY
I bought it because it shipped from the Amazon warehouse instead of the slow boat. See the three holes? It's supposed to look like this: https://aerialpixels.com/5-8ghz-high-gain-14dbi-fpv-flat-panel-antenna/ but the directing elements were never installed, and some of the traces are improperly etched. It must be some scrap from a factory floor that someone decided to sell.
After getting poor performance in the field, I twisted it around on the bench and found its radiation pattern is blown all over the place, not even symmetrical, and the side lobes are larger than the main. This junk is going back to Amazon.
I bought it because it shipped from the Amazon warehouse instead of the slow boat. See the three holes? It's supposed to look like this: https://aerialpixels.com/5-8ghz-high-gain-14dbi-fpv-flat-panel-antenna/ but the directing elements were never installed, and some of the traces are improperly etched. It must be some scrap from a factory floor that someone decided to sell.
After getting poor performance in the field, I twisted it around on the bench and found its radiation pattern is blown all over the place, not even symmetrical, and the side lobes are larger than the main. This junk is going back to Amazon.