Application Note DN034

Table of Contents

KEYWORDS 1
1 INTRODUCTION 1
2 ABBREVIATIONS 2
3 BOARD DESCRIPTION 3
3.1 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 2.4 GHZ YAGI PCB DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA 4
4 MEASUREMENTS 5
4.1 S11 MEASUREMENTS 5
4.1.1 Bandwidth 5
4.1.2 Impedance 6
4.2 RADIATION PATTERN 7
4.3 OTA TEST RESULTS FOR 2400 MHZ, 2440 MHZ & 2480 MHZ 8
5 SUMMARY 9
6 REFERENCES 10
7 GENERAL INFORMATION 10
7.1 DOCUMENT HISTORY 10
8 APPENDICES 11
8.1 OTA TEST RESULTS FOR FREQUENCY 2400.000 MHZ 11
8.2 OTA TEST RESULTS FOR FREQUENCY 2440.000 MHZ 17
8.3 OTA TEST RESULTS FOR FREQUENCY 2480.000 MHZ 23

2 Abbreviations

AN Application Note
AUT Antenna Under Test
CPW CoPlanar Waveguide
CTIA Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association
DK Development Kit
DN Design Note
EB Evaluation Board
EIRP Effective Isotropic Radiated Power
EM Electro Magnetic
EM Evaluation Module
IFA Inverted-F Antenna
ISM Industrial, Scientific, Medical
LOS Line of Sight
NHPRP Near Horizon Partial Radiated Power
NHPRP45 Near Horizon Partial Radiated Power within 45 degrees angle
OTA Over The Air
PCB Printed Circuit Board
RF Radio Frequency
RL Return Loss
SWR Standing Wave Ratio
TI Texas Instruments
TRP Total Radiated Power
VSWR Voltage Standing Wave Ratio
YAGI Directional Antenna (Original invented by YAGI & UDA)

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