estqwerty’s wifi antennas

18 or 19dBi - no mater for this one . Several dipoles printed on PCB board. Have more dipoles You get more dBis. Will it be 10 12 or 24 - You decide how much do You need.

This is defiantly homemade design. I have one small antenna whit only 4 dipoles - and it works great, so this antenna should work fine. Also will be easy to be rescaled for other bands - 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz only change dimension of the dipoles.

19dbi panel wifi antenna link to picture

Here is the photo from the other side of the pcb board and other part of feeding element

Picture is from this address : diy.wifi-live.pl/node/4 where also have blueprints for less dbi antenna .

On www.zero13wireless.net also has several files posted by sushisan .

Link to files 18dbipcbdipoleantenna.zip

You can read about this antenna here www.g0mrf.freeserve.co.uk

Freq : 5.6Ghz Gain : 10Dbi Beamwidth : 55 deg

All building instructions are on the site.

On http://wireless.com.pt/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=3a383f0ff0f782f5a00fea2c1e20e5d9&topic=15658.0 You can find interesting antenna projct cardboard slotted waveguide.

Aluminium foil and cardboard is used to build slotted waveguide wifi antenna.

Here some pictures :

Last picture is 11Ghz and 2.4Ghz versions compared.

Waveguide is tested and the resuts are very good - more than 14dbi are reached!

This is a good way to fast build and test antennas, also quick modifications are possable.

The bad thing is that You can not solder aluminium - which for this antenna is not a problem.

The author of this post call this “40cents antenna” and he has several different types of antennas builded and tested.

You can find the links on the http://wireless.com.pt forums.

Are You remember this one : http://www.digdice.com/?p=138

This looks very crazy, oddly promising 18 dbi gain.

BUT now there are more info about this, as promised by admin of the GUW forum.

Here is all info in spanish :

http://www.guw.cl/sitio/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=110&Itemid=36

The author of this one is Ross Anderson and the original idea for this antenna is from 1984 year the good thing is that all the information about this one is here.

There is interesting version of this antenna build by the author. On his site he describes the how to build this panel antenna from zing fence. The original 2400mhz version is here : http://home.comcast.net/~ross_anderson/2400MHzAntenna.htm

The idea and the info : http://home.comcast.net/~ross_anderson/CurtainQuad.htm

Here some pictures from the em simulation from GUW site :

So as I see this, I can accept that this antenna works. On the site is said that this antenna outperform many commercial ones.

The diagram of this antenna and look from in front :

More pictures of this antenna build and tested for 1296Mhz and 2400mhz :

Interesting about this is the using of speaker wire for matching transformer :

“… Solder a 1+ inch piece of speaker wire to the N connector. One wire goes to the center pin; the other wire to the outside part of the connector. I drilled a small hole in the connector flange for the wire to be inserted into and soldered in place. Leave about 3/4 inch of insulation on the speaker wire (as measured where the two wires are together). This is the transformer, transforming the antenna impedance to about 50 ohms.”

There is also PDF tutorial on the GUW site : guw panel 18dbi.pdf

So this is promising design which I should test soon too. Will be interesting to find out will this design works if it is printed on PCB?