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Old 08-30-2002   #6 (permalink)
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Re: Re: Antenna designs

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Originally posted by hugenbdd
Since it will be very hard to find a can that is 1.5 to 1.6 inches in diam. would a piece of coper pipping that is 1.5 or so work? or would PVC work better if I can find it.
Again, length of the "can" matters also correct? so if a pringles can is 12 or so inches long then I would want a piece of PVC that is 6 inches long and probaly place the probe( which is a length of 1.21 / 2 = .605 inche/s long) from the back of the can by about 1 inch.
Without running through the calculations, I would guess you should start trying at around a diameter of 1.5" and a length of 9". Remember than a Pringles can is way too short to be an efficient 802.11b waveguide. And you can't be serious about using PVC???
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