[amsat-bb] Re: Gain VS Bandwidth at 2.4GHZ

[Luc Leblanc]

On 16 May 2009 at 17:27, Roger Kolakowski wrote:

A part of my mystery is solved WiFi and WiMAX I am not a big fan of WiFi as i have some security concern but i discover that i don't have 
the best antenna for 2.4 and fiddling with it is not an option. A true 2.4 is in the mail to replace it and with 2 antennas now i will be 
able to install them to have vertical and horizontal polarisation and i will see if there is some improvement at 2.4ghz when switching 
between them. Nobody answer me back regarding the S band linear "not circular" AO-51 antenna but the fades are probably due to some  
antenna blocking than anything else. On the last S band session me and Clare VE3NPC noted that the fades does not happen at the same time 
on our respective QTH there is surely not some selective circular polarisation path?

> This was probably just a typo; if so, pardon the reply...
> 
I was mixing both...hi 
> 
> Wi-Fi and Wi-Max are different things.  An antenna designed for Wi-Max
> may not operate very well, as you describe, on 2.4 ghz.  Wi-Fi's
> 802.11b/g is on 2.4 ghz (channel 1 is right on top of our allocation),
> so a properly designed Wi-Fi antenna could be good for 13cm Ham
> applications.
> 
> >
> Enjoy the new toy,
> 
> Greg  KO6TH
> 

Some experimenting to come on the next S band session.
 
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