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Looking to calculate the length of an antenna
Jan 28th, 2012, 12:12am
 
I discovered this formula which gives the approximate length of an antenna. Can anyone tell me if this is correct ? I don't have any specifications on the antenna just looking for a rough estimate.

wavelength in meters = 300 / frequency in MHz

That means if someone is using the 2.4GHz band the length of the antenna would be 300/2400 = 0.125 meters ? I don't know if this sounds correct but was hoping someone could validate this formula.

Thanks in advance
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Re: Looking to calculate the length of an antenna
Reply #1 - Jan 29th, 2012, 1:53pm
 
amateur radio crowd has lots of stuff on this, as well as many textbooks,

Start here:

http://www.dxzone.com/catalog/Antennas/

http://ac6v.com/antprojects.htm
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Re: Looking to calculate the length of an antenna
Reply #2 - Jan 31st, 2012, 8:17pm
 
loose-electron wrote on Jan 29th, 2012, 1:53pm:
amateur radio crowd has lots of stuff on this, as well as many textbooks,

Start here:

http://www.dxzone.com/catalog/Antennas/

http://ac6v.com/antprojects.htm


Thanks I will check out those links.
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Re: Looking to calculate the length of an antenna
Reply #3 - Feb 1st, 2012, 9:21pm
 
happy to help...
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