Antenna types

[Logan Bowers]

My antenna of choice is the 19dBi panel.  They work very well and can  
be purchased on eBay for about $60 each.

Logan Bowers


On May 1, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Tom Hayward wrote:

> I've never tried a commercial cantenna, but it was quite hard to  
> get a homebrew cantenna tuned and matched properly. I used an  
> oversize tin (steel) can. It happened to be a slightly incorrect  
> dimension to properly match to 50 ohm (understandable, it's  
> designed for storing food). I hooked it up to a network analyzer  
> and stuffed polyethylene in the can until it came up to 50 ohm--not  
> easy to do without the network analyzer. If I were to do it again  
> and didn't have the test equipment available, I would just buy one  
> (a cantenna).
>
> Dishes and yagis are nice, but big. I haven't used a panel, but  
> they seem bulky for walking/driving with too.
>
> Tom
>
> On 4/29/07, Lucio Crusca <lucio at sulweb.org> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm new here, I'm new to wardriving, I'm not even from Seattle (I'm  
> from
> Italy). So please be patient with my newbie questions...
>
> I'd like to purchase some hardware to do wardriving (warwalking,  
> etc...)
> this summer. I plan to buy a 2511CD+ext2, a 7dBi omni directional  
> antenna
> and a directional antenna. For the omnidirectional I guess there  
> isn't much
> to say, they are all more or less the same except for their power,  
> right?
> The directional antenna is what puzzles me... which type should I  
> buy? Bare
> cantenna? Yagi? Panel? Will a home built cantenna perform just like a
> bought one? Will a 20dBi yagi outperform a 15dBi cantenna by 33%  
> longer
> range?
>
> TIA for any advice.
>
> Lucio.
>
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