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muckbucket
 Post subject: need help replacing antenna in design
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:48 pm 
 
Lieutenant

Joined: Thu Mar 23, 2006 8:44 pm
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Hi,
I'm a newb when it comes to antennas.

I previously designed a circuit board which contained a Chipcon CC2500 2.4GHz transceiver. It was using an inverted F antenna (pcb trace). The design included a balun and other matching components. I copied most of this from the reference design that was provided with the evaluation boards.

Now I want to use a Gigaant Rufa SMD antenna. If I obey the restrictions as far as distance from the ground plane and thickness of PCB etc, can I just replace the inverted F antenna with the Gigaant antenna? Do I need to change values of the matching components or balun?

Thanks!
 
   
 
muckbucket
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:50 pm 
 
Lieutenant

Joined: Thu Mar 23, 2006 8:44 pm
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admin please delete this thread. dont know how i duplicated it. thanks



Posted  11/12/2012