I have just ordered from Maplins (UK) a Nikkai frequency counter and signal strength indicator.
It would appear that the Nikkai counter shows signal strength as a bar graph, can I keep chopping bits off the whip until the graph shopws the highest output or am I missing something and being really dumb here.
I have some RG174 coax to make a ground plane ant but will this be too flimsy at nearly twice the size of a 2.4 GHz groundplane ant at 3cm.?
The F plug I used was the screw in type and I soldered the pug body to the brass reflector and a piece of copper wire is soldered to the element and goes straight into the hole in the socket . Does this sound OK?
I have another 2.4 GHz tx from "airwave" but I cannot find out the output or anythinig else about it It has a label on it which reads 610T006911 does this mean anything to anyone?
Ahab (coz I'm havin' a "whale" of a time"
At 1.2GHz or so, the F is fine. At 2.4Ghz, they will attenuate your signal. If your system is 2.4Ghz, do not use F connectors.
I'll take the F off the 2.4 RX can I just solder a V short length of RG174 from the module to the patch?
can I just solder a V short length of RG174 from the module to the patch?
The success of the patch includes not using coax. What is the Rx's factory supplied connector? Use the mate that matches it.
The factory supplied ant was a piece of glass fiber tube about 6" long with 7 or 8 square copper elements glued to it in a line .
Then just use the factory supplied coax and solder it to the Patch. Be careful of heat -- it can distort the coax's poly dielectric material, which is not a good thing to do.
Use RG-174 and try to keep the length under 3cm.