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sporadic
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 Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2014 7:03 pm Post subject: Need help identifying this PCB antenna |
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I had originally thought this was a meandering / folded inverted F, but I believe I'm wrong. Could someone tell me the basis of this design so I could research the theory behind it? It's common the 2.4GHz nRF24L01+ modules that you can grab on eBay. Thank you!
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Schubert
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| Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2014 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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| That's just a piece of crap dipole antenna. One side is the main ground plane (i.e. the ground of the board) and the other side is that meandered wire to fit in the space provided |
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sporadic
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| Schubert wrote: | | That's just a piece of crap dipole antenna. One side is the main ground plane (i.e. the ground of the board) and the other side is that meandered wire to fit in the space provided |
Ah, thanks! What about the vertical trace that looks to be ~1/16 wavelength running to the ground via? That is what was throwing me for a loop I believe. Also, it should be a 50 ohm feed according the components used crossed against their reference designs. Thanks again for the help. |
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Schubert
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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That can be a distributed inductor (i.e. adds parallel inductance at feed to cancel out increased capacitance due to wrapping dipole close to ground plane). So technically it is an IFA.
An IFA is essentially a dipole though, with a transmission line style inductor as part of the matching. |
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