Yearly Archives: 2018

Spiral Antenna – Part 3 – Results and Suckers

The original aim for this antenna was to be a general purpose antenna that worked down to 400MHz. The results are now in and I am really pleased with them. The antenna was tested by AntennaTestLab in a full anechoic

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Spiral Antenna – Part 2 – Modelling and Simulation with OpenEMS

Now tested by AntennaTestLab. For now see results here Electromagnetic simulation software can be very expensive. While some software is cheaper, it often comes with either technical or artificial limitations. There are however a couple of free alternatives. NEC2 –

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Spiral Antenna – Part 1

Why? My original Palm Tree Vivaldi Antenna has proved amazingly popular. Much more so than I originally intended. The design aim for this was primarily for it to be small and portable. When deciding what to do next I decided

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Reconfigurable Ultra-Wideband Antenna Array Kit – part 2 (Spacing)

Why Spacing Matters Firstly, the antenna array I am designing is a fixed in-phase array. Hence we assume that the total path length from each antenna to the single input/output connection are the same length. This makes the design and

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Ultra-Wideband Antenna Lab Measurements

My Vivaldi Antenna was recently tested by Antenna Test Lab who offer an excellent professional antenna testing facility. Antenna Test Lab are able to provide customers with full 2D/3D antenna measurement using their anechoic antenna testing chamber.

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UWB Antenna R&D Survey

I am conducting a quick survey to help discover what developments people would most like to take my UWB antenna forward. I would be really grateful if you could take a few minutes to have your say.

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Reconfigurable Ultra-Wideband Antenna Array Kit – part 1

My next project after successfully building my Ultra-Wideband Vivaldi antenna is to use it to create a UWB antenna array. I will assume that most readers are at least slightly familiar with the concept of an array, I will give

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