Experimental Project

http://www.wildpackets.com/elements/whitepapers/Converting_Signal_Strength.pdf

cantenna for emitter?

http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html

[FCC crap]

pigtail cables

adapter that does what we want: [link] ([cached])

RP-SMA Female -> N-type anything (preferably male)

[connector chart and history]

[maybe these guys]
- [pigtail picker]

[products]

[prod ref]

http://www.timesmicrowave.com/telecom/wireless/

[calculator]

[cable types recommended]

[ready-made pigtails]

[pigtail resources]

"If you need to make an extension cable between the antenna and the pigtail/converter cable, we recommend using either LMR-400 or RG-213 cable as these are durable low loss cables suitable for 2.4 Ghz." [src]

stuff

http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_00/47cfr15_00.html

http://www.rflabs.com/

http://www.antennex.com/preview/notuner.htm

http://mars.comportco.com/~w5alt/antennas/notes/ant-notes.php?pg=8

Something tells me that between our original idea from before break, and now, we have veered off into a place that is better experimentally, but worse temporally.

Can we still get away with just hooking up the antenna and reflector to a wireless pci card and measuring the difference in gain over with/without the reflector? Like this: http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448

Once we have this data, some data of any kind. Could we go back to measuring what we were currently on the path to measure?

What to measure?

Will this work?

put in plain dipole and hook up to S.A. and measure/calculate the power delivered by the building's wireless signal
put in the relfector and hook up to S.A. and measure/calculate the power delivered by the building's wireless signal
calcluate the gain in one version over the other.

Perhaps instead of using the building's wireless, we should just use the testing access point since we'll know where that is in the room so we can point the reflector in that direction.

Impedance Matching

tuning screw

VSWR Meter

My interpretation of steps to test:

Short Zx and adjust R3 (pot) to full scale deflection on DC output meter.
Put a 50 ohm dummy load on Zx and check for a 1:1 VSWR.
- adjust capacitance at Zx with copper foil and solder to match
actual measurement: attach test antenna to Zx and measure VSWR.