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For those interested, 4NEC2 can be downloaded free of charge. http://home.ict.nl/~arivoors/Home.htm The software makes the job of designing a workable antenna within the reach of those of us who lack a masters or doctorate degree in mathematics and electrical engineering. In the last 'code' post, the dimensions of a 5/8 wave whip is about 1.87meters (SY DEL=1.868521 'Element Section Length in Meters). A loading coil is needed as well, located at the base of the antenna, it's calculated value is about 0.6 µH (SY COIL=6.125e-7 'Load Inductance, Henrys). This should be enough information to build an experimental 5/8 wave vertical antenna for use in the FM broadcast band. (Using the calculator at http://www.daycounter.com/Calculator...lculator.phtml I estimate a coil 0.5" in diameter, 0.7" long and having 3 turns, will be very close to the needed value for the load coil.) The modeling suggests that you would see about 2 or 3 dB better gain compared to a stock whip antenna. |
do you ow if a bi-quad antenna can be used for a cell phone? I get terrible reception. One like this; http://www.ebay.com/itm/BIQUAD-ANTEN...item2eb543aace i know i need the connections
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Theoretically, the fundamental idea is workable... but like an any other mobile radio, you'll usually want an antenna that's omnidirectional. The bi-quad you've linked to is a uni-directional antenna and if the cosmetics are any indication, I'm not impressed with the build quality. It's also advertized as a Wi-Fi band antenna (WiFi is dominantly in the 2.4 GHz range, whereas cell phone and PCS services fall in the range of 700 MHz to 2.3 GHz).
Finally, very few cell phones provide a means of disconnecting the original antenna... How would you connect an accessory/third party antenna? |
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Not sure what the ports are.they sure are tiny.
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biquad for cell phone
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This site is old ( first I ever heard about nec modeling software and before 802.11 g came out) Scroll to the bottom of the page. http://trevormarshall.com/biquad.htm If this is to be a mobile cellphone antenna then bi-quad is to directional. Modern cell phones don't have a visible antenna so the "coupling" would be the main issue. If the antenna is for a house you could arrange for your ez-chair to to be at the focus of an offset parabola (in the attic). GroundUrMast is right about the construction of the biquad you linked to (copper clad pc board is terrible for this application) ,after 3 attempts using the printed circuit board I switched to copper flashing. (find a friendly siding installation crew to bend the lips on their brake ) |
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