meshtastic/docs/hardware/antennas/resources.mdx

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id: resources
title: LoRa Antenna Resources
sidebar_label: Resources
sidebar_position: 4
---

### More antenna information

- [Hackaday's Introduction to Antenna Basics](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_tws4AXg7authztKFg5ZN5qWGtq3N_nI)
  - An excellent series of presentations on the basics of antenna design and function, presented by spacecraft radio engineer Karen Rucker.

### Coverage prediction

- [Tower Coverage.com](https://www.towercoverage.com)

  - Commercial, but has free options

- [HeyWhat'sThat](http://www.heywhatsthat.com)

  - Free with path profiling options

- [Radio Mobile Online](https://www.ve2dbe.com/rmonline_s.asp)
  - Radio Mobile Online is a radio wave propagation prediction tool dedicated to amateur radio

### RF Tools

- [Times Microwave Systems](https://www.timesmicrowave.com/calculator/?Product=RG-6&RunLength=10&Frequency=868)

  - Coaxial Cable Attenuation & Power Handling Calculator

- [Solwise Link Budget Calculator](https://www.solwise.co.uk/link-budget.htm)

  - Predict the received signal strength

- [Amateur Radio Toolkit](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daveyhollenberg.amateurradiotoolkit)
  - Android app with lots of antenna information

### Antenna designs

- [1/4 Wave Ground Plane Antenna Calculator](https://m0ukd.com/calculators/quarter-wave-ground-plane-antenna-calculator)

- [Quadrifilar helicoidal antenna calculator](https://jcoppens.com/ant/qfh/calc.en.php)

- [Building an 868/915 MHz co-linear antenna tutorial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_1LxuOngHs)

  - [868 MHz antenna schematic PDF](https://github.com/IRNAS/ttn-irnas-gw/blob/master/Collinear868MHzLoRaantenna.PDF)
  - [915 MHz antenna schematic PDF](https://github.com/IRNAS/ttn-irnas-gw/blob/master/CollinearLoRaantenna915MHzIRNAS.PDF)

- [NEC based antenna modeler and optimizer](https://www.qsl.net/4nec2)
Antennas 2021-05-09 06:51:23 -07:00			`---`
			`id: resources`
updated gettings started and supported hardware page 2022-11-01 15:04:52 -07:00			`title: LoRa Antenna Resources`
Antennas 2021-05-09 06:51:23 -07:00			`sidebar_label: Resources`
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Update resources.md 2021-07-15 14:44:03 -07:00			`### More antenna information`
Antennas 2021-05-09 06:51:23 -07:00
Simplify build instrucions and rename plugins. 2022-03-08 23:10:41 -08:00			`- [Hackaday's Introduction to Antenna Basics](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_tws4AXg7authztKFg5ZN5qWGtq3N_nI)`
			`- An excellent series of presentations on the basics of antenna design and function, presented by spacecraft radio engineer Karen Rucker.`
Antennas 2021-05-09 06:51:23 -07:00
Simplify build instrucions and rename plugins. 2022-03-08 23:10:41 -08:00			`### Coverage prediction`
Antennas 2021-05-09 06:51:23 -07:00
Simplify build instrucions and rename plugins. 2022-03-08 23:10:41 -08:00			`- [Tower Coverage.com](https://www.towercoverage.com)`
Antennas 2021-05-09 06:51:23 -07:00
Lint Markdown files 2023-01-19 05:01:57 -08:00			`- Commercial, but has free options`
Antennas 2021-05-09 06:51:23 -07:00
Tidying up hardware section The custom.css changes have changed the behaviour of list items, removing the top & bottom margins, so hopefully looking more like a list and less like a group of items spread across the page. 2022-04-22 16:09:23 -07:00			`- [HeyWhat'sThat](http://www.heywhatsthat.com)`
Antennas 2021-05-09 06:51:23 -07:00
Lint Markdown files 2023-01-19 05:01:57 -08:00			`- Free with path profiling options`
Tidying up hardware section The custom.css changes have changed the behaviour of list items, removing the top & bottom margins, so hopefully looking more like a list and less like a group of items spread across the page. 2022-04-22 16:09:23 -07:00
Simplify build instrucions and rename plugins. 2022-03-08 23:10:41 -08:00			`- [Radio Mobile Online](https://www.ve2dbe.com/rmonline_s.asp)`
			`- Radio Mobile Online is a radio wave propagation prediction tool dedicated to amateur radio`
Antennas 2021-05-09 06:51:23 -07:00
			`### RF Tools`

Simplify build instrucions and rename plugins. 2022-03-08 23:10:41 -08:00			`- [Times Microwave Systems](https://www.timesmicrowave.com/calculator/?Product=RG-6&RunLength=10&Frequency=868)`
Antennas 2021-05-09 06:51:23 -07:00
Lint Markdown files 2023-01-19 05:01:57 -08:00			`- Coaxial Cable Attenuation & Power Handling Calculator`
Small fixes 2021-05-15 11:36:15 -07:00
Tidying up hardware section The custom.css changes have changed the behaviour of list items, removing the top & bottom margins, so hopefully looking more like a list and less like a group of items spread across the page. 2022-04-22 16:09:23 -07:00			`- [Solwise Link Budget Calculator](https://www.solwise.co.uk/link-budget.htm)`
Antennas 2021-05-09 06:51:23 -07:00
Lint Markdown files 2023-01-19 05:01:57 -08:00			`- Predict the received signal strength`
Tidying up hardware section The custom.css changes have changed the behaviour of list items, removing the top & bottom margins, so hopefully looking more like a list and less like a group of items spread across the page. 2022-04-22 16:09:23 -07:00
Simplify build instrucions and rename plugins. 2022-03-08 23:10:41 -08:00			`- [Amateur Radio Toolkit](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daveyhollenberg.amateurradiotoolkit)`
			`- Android app with lots of antenna information`
Small fixes 2021-05-15 11:36:15 -07:00
Antennas 2021-05-09 06:51:23 -07:00			`### Antenna designs`

Simplify build instrucions and rename plugins. 2022-03-08 23:10:41 -08:00			`- [1/4 Wave Ground Plane Antenna Calculator](https://m0ukd.com/calculators/quarter-wave-ground-plane-antenna-calculator)`
Antennas 2021-05-09 06:51:23 -07:00
Simplify build instrucions and rename plugins. 2022-03-08 23:10:41 -08:00			`- [Quadrifilar helicoidal antenna calculator](https://jcoppens.com/ant/qfh/calc.en.php)`
Antennas 2021-05-09 06:51:23 -07:00
Simplify build instrucions and rename plugins. 2022-03-08 23:10:41 -08:00			`- [Building an 868/915 MHz co-linear antenna tutorial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_1LxuOngHs)`
Antennas 2021-05-09 06:51:23 -07:00
Simplify build instrucions and rename plugins. 2022-03-08 23:10:41 -08:00			`- [868 MHz antenna schematic PDF](https://github.com/IRNAS/ttn-irnas-gw/blob/master/Collinear868MHzLoRaantenna.PDF)`
			`- [915 MHz antenna schematic PDF](https://github.com/IRNAS/ttn-irnas-gw/blob/master/CollinearLoRaantenna915MHzIRNAS.PDF)`
Antennas 2021-05-09 06:51:23 -07:00
Simplify build instrucions and rename plugins. 2022-03-08 23:10:41 -08:00			`- [NEC based antenna modeler and optimizer](https://www.qsl.net/4nec2)`