[dorkbotdc-blabber] Making your own antenna

[carn2fex]

The most simple method is to stick a long bare piece of wire on your output
and slowly shorten by clipping off parts until you maximize the resonance,
which sorta takes another antenna to observe.. better method, just buy one
for a few bucks:

http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Cat=3539643;keywords=antenna

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Andrew Q Righter
<andrew at i11industries.com>wrote:

> Howdy,
>
>      Does anyone have any experience / info they can shoot over to me about
> building your own antenna? I have an RF circuit I built using a Son-Micro
> SM125IC and it basically just requires power and an antenna, I need to make
> an antenna with a FR of 125KHz. I've never done this part before, any help
> would be great. I think that you can wrap magnet wire and use a variable
> capacitor to tune it, is this right?
>
> Any links/info would help!
>
> Sorry about being MIA lately, I'm on too many projects ATM and trying to
> complete them all at once is a nightmare.
>
> Cheers,
>
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