By David Rowe, on January 14th, 2010
Today we made some phone calls over a 400m link using PCB antennas.
We want to use etched PCB Wifi antennas for the Mesh Potato. However we have heard that some companies have had problems with PCB antennas, such as variable results in production. So before committing to PCB antenna we wanted to do [...]
By David Rowe, on January 13th, 2010
Joel is helping my Village Telco presentation at the upcoming LCA 2010 conference so I took a couple of the first Beta MP01s down to his place for a test drive. They are fresh off the production line and not even calibrated as I needed them in a hurry for LCA 2010. Atcom [...]
By David Rowe, on December 21st, 2009
Jeff and I have just had an enjoyable day outside testing candidate antennas for the Mesh Potato. Our goal was to evaluate candidates for the internal antenna of the production Mesh Potato.
Jeff designed three types of antennas which I laid out on PCB and had fabricated locally. The three designs were a dipole, [...]