Cheap and wideband? It's hard to beat a bow-tie (a relative of the bicon) for cheap and wideband too; you can make one out of cardboard and aluminum foil, or sheets of foam house insulation with a foil covering. Big, though. How cheap must it be? One might make a "bicon" out of wire coat hangers for *cheap*. (I wouldn't want to have to convince some manager a bunch of coat hangers was telling him to add parts, though.)
Radio Shack has a discone antenna ($60 I think) which covers 100-1300 MHz with pretty good SWR. Just leave off the 50 MHz loaded whip they stuck on it. One can buy 100-1300 MHz or even (huge) 50-1300 MHz ham/scanner LP antennas for a few hundred dollars and that is really a good deal compared to ETS. Dressler makes a broadband (50-2000 MHz) active antenna, and they're not the only ones. However, the cheaply built ones may not be worth the money; I have an "Active Hunter" that oscillates internally around 1400 MHz. Cortland Richmond This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
