I already done a AMOS Antenna before but I need to build another one. A bit more robust. I decided to use a N connector, a bit of plumbing.. and here is the result:
This stuff, is quite robust right now ;) .. and still have a great gain.
Please note that there is some new AMOS […]
admin June 5th, 2006
I spend a little time to write an article on the Brest Wireless website about various hack to add a connector to a PCMCIA, or USB card.
You can find it out here
a PCMCIA:
a USB one:
– Enjoy :)
admin July 22nd, 2005
This is perhaps one of my best homemade antenna.
I found the original design here: http://yu1aw.ba-karlsruhe.de/Amos.pdf
You can find my construction guide on Brest Wireless website at
http://www.brest-wireless.net/wiki/materiel:amos
My conclusion:
First:
Take care of this antenna, I broke the first balun while testing :(
and the balun is the hardest part to do
Tests :
13db of gain
and a really big beam 120° !
the […]
admin July 7th, 2005
After the omnidirectionnal antennas, and the can-antenna, here comes the new one:
This is a biQuad, and a double-biQuad antenna. You can find the construction guide (in Fr) here.
As usuall the photos is in the Brest-Wireless gallery
The small one is about 11/12db .. and the biggest one: ~ 14db !!
Update: Fix links
admin April 19th, 2005
I decide to launch a new wireless antenna collection. Here is my new homemade one.
You can discover all photos here, and the construction guide
admin April 5th, 2005
Once again, i tested several wireless design.
The spider
The spider is a simple to do (really), quarter wave omni-directional antenna. The cost: a female N :) Beside this antenna doesn’t have any gain, it prove to be really usefull, mainly for wardriving because it’s small, and offer really better performance than the default PCMCIA builtins (because […]
admin February 19th, 2005
I never do that before, but some guys give me this really fancy antenna.
Check out Brest Wireless photo album for more infos
Update: I tested this last night. In fact the gain of this beautifull antenna
is around 17dB. Yes ! 17dB for a homemade antenna is pretty high, no ? I really like this stuff
Update 2: […]
admin January 22nd, 2005
I just receive my new wifi antenna :) I fact, I’m currently using my NetGear WG311 as a AP, this works pretty fine, but the signal is a bit low in some part of my home. I decided to buy a small antenna to have better signal.
This one is a omni antenna, with 4dBi, with […]
admin October 9th, 2004
