Electromagnetics Lab home for ECE 405 Electromagnetic Fields
and Waves II ECE 407 Electromagnetic Compatibility
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ECE 405 Final Project Fall 2005 Wireless LAN antenna
Instructor: Ed Rothwell TA: Jorge Villa
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Project Goal design, build, and field test an antenna to use
with a wireless LAN router Requirements antenna must fit in a box
1m on a side and provide sufficient gain to double the range of a
standard wireless router
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Environment The router must make an RF connection with a pocket
PC at various points in the Engineering Building. The group with
the greatest range wins the contest!
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Electro- magnetics Lab (transmitter) x Limit of reception
standard transmitting antenna
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OK Lets get busy building our antenna
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I need more duct tape stat!
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I wonder if this is really gonna work?
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Better do some testing
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Pattern looks good!
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Oh yeah! Celebrate!
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Competition time how far can we go?
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The results x Group 1 x Group 3 x Group 4 x Group 5 x Group
6
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The winners Group 4 Craig Pomeroy, Mohammed Hossain, Omari
Badi, Adam Bender, Yulius Halim Not pictured: Kevin Burghart, Vik
Subramaniam
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Group 1 Fern Gatilao, Arthur Matteson, Andrew Baczewski, Claude
Jinga, Amit Patel Not pictured: Wuraola Medahunsi, Gary Luu
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Group 3 Paul Prinz, Kevin Briere, Donald Dummer, Rashid
Al-Hajri Not pictured: Hmoud Alabhool, Jordan Elzinga, Linda
Joegiono
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Group 5 Syed Ahmed, Muhammad Zaheer, Muhammad Umar, Apoorva
Dasai, Matthew Raetz, Chhay Tep Not pictured: Christopher
Micielli
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Group 6 Jennifer Kelly, Vang Kue, Jacey Marushia-Laurain,
Mohaned Mohamed, Joseph Ciolek, Anthony Recca Not pictured: Stephan
Shatara, Balaji Nagre
