hello,
Does anyone have any recommendations for external antennas to use with the halowlink1 in a bridge configuration? One will be mounted on the roof of a moving vehicle, with the other as the base station.
thank you,
Welcome!
I don’t have any specific recommendations, as I haven’t had much time for racing of late. My general recommenation would be to look at 900MHz offerings from Laird, MobileMark, or Taoglas. A quick search of Mouser comes up with a couple of options from Laird.
My general preference is for fixed, radome style antennas. Whip antennas will be an easy way to get some extra gain, but the whip swaying in the breeze may cause our rate control to react adversely.
ok great thank you for that.
Do you think this would be suitable?
ENG_DS_ANT_DS_M6_STUD_VEHICULAR_WHIP_ANTENNAS_A-3359157.pdf
or better to go with this one?
Please excuse my ignorance, I am very out of my depth with RF stuff!
thanks,
I was thinking something more like https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/TE-Connectivity-Laird-External-Antennas/TRAB9023N
It gets you a couple of dB more gain than the wide-band antennas intended for LTE, and is a little cheaper.
The popularity of Helium mining means that there are cheap omni antennas for the base station side all over Amazon. I haven’t done much testing with these yet, but I did pick one up to play with recently.