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Corner antenna
A simple corner antenna built with domestic copper wire (1.5 mm²) and a piece of Tetra Brik. It seems ok (at a small distance, but has -- There is no contact between the two pieces of wire --
(in French on http://ReseauCitoyen.be/?CornerAntenna)
http://www.freeantennas.com/projects/template/index.html has been signaled on CookieCantenna . The proposed home-made parabole looks more like a 'rounded corner' than like a cantenna.
Osiris Responds: That is true. The template is just a small linear locus parabolic reflector. Posted link on CookieCantenna will be removed. I did not post it. I have used the template to make something similar to this trough reflector by constructing a dipole on the end of the coax, though I did add a quater wave balun. I feel that construct was very similar in performance to the reflector shown here.
Here is another corner template
See also some math about parabolas.
see :
from BNJ
