Connexions Authoring Performance
April 29, 2010
For the Siyavula project we partnered with Connexions as our online content platform (some of the reasons can be found here). As part of this partnership we try to do more than use Connexions as a…
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Potato on the Jetty – Range testing PCB Antennas
January 14, 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…
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- Village Telco, antenna, etched, mesh potato, pcb, performance, testing
- Tags: dipole, diversity antenna, Henley Beach, monopole, rubber ducky, sleeve
Antenna Testing
December 21, 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…
Written by: drowe
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- RF, Village Telco, antenna, design, mesh potato, performance, testing
- Tags: antenna, antenna impedance, double sided pcb, monopole, wire, wire antennas
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