Pringles Cantenna in anechoic chamber
We recently did some antenna pattern measurements and included the Pringles cantenna (which I
blogged about a few weeks ago) amongst a couple of other great antennas. I doubt if this has ever been done before! The Pringles cantenna performed surprisingly well seeing that we did nothing to improve the conductivity of the can.
We also built a replica of the Pringle version out of copper as show in the image below. The graphs below compare measured S11 and gain patterns between these two antennas.
Pringles and copper cantennas
S11 simulation vs measurements
Pringles vs copper cantenna pattern comparisons
Author: Robert Kellerman
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