Homemade antennas
In radioelectronics, an antenna is a device used to emit or receive electromagnetic radiation. More precisely, the antenna converts into electromagnetic energy that leads to a transmission line or waveguide into an electromagnetic wave in space and vice versa.
There are several types of antennas:
• Yagi: i.e. heading towards the transmitter with a receiving range of 20 degrees. Horizontal construction. This antenna allows us to accept reception from afar.
• Panel: these are antennas suitable for the UHF TELEVISION zone. They consist of a device of 2 or 4 dipoles in front of a flat reflector in the form of a metal mesh. This antenna shows good bandwidth and reduced directionality and gain compared to the Yagi antenna. It was used in the transmission of a television signal in Vlachomanra Nafpaktia.
• VHF/FM Radio: usually consists of a folded dipole tuned in the middle of the 88-108 MHz band.
• Radio in the middle MW, a simple wire wrapped in coil style with a length of 5 meters and a coil diameter of 10 cm.
• Short radio SW. A simple coil-style wire with a length of 0.5 to 2 km with a coil diameter of up to 100 meters. One end in the air the other in the receiver. The receiver in its socket has two terminals the second grounded. This in terms of a simple and enhanced download. In the broadcast the construction looks like yagi but has a diameter of up to 15 meters.
There are also several types of antennas for telecommunications and data transfer: Radar antennas and long-range short oscillations, which use the Moon or even further afield as reflections.
On satellite, the situation is different. There are two areas: the mirror as a reflector and the LNB as the receiving device. The LNB has two dipoles, one horizontal and one vertical, where the signal is converted from 9.5 to 12 GHz at a lower frequency from 800 MHz to 2.5 GHz so that it can be distributed to the receiver via cable and at the same time is enhanced for its distribution.
The antenna consists of three areas:
• Directional. His job is to amplify the signal he receives or emits.
• Reflector. Reflects the signal reinforced by the direction and prevents interference from the opposite side of the antenna.
• Dipole. He's the oscillation coordinator for the download or broadcast.
The antenna is used by a transmitter to emit electromagnetic waves which will collect another antenna, that of the receiver and through coordination will communicate.