Wireless Network Access Point (WNAP) Set Up Guide

or: How To Set Up a TWCN Node

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Appendix A : Antennas - Going the distance

Home Grown Antennas

Nothing's cheaper and allows you more flexibility (read as pain & joy) than creating your own antenna. There's already a lot of information out there, so here are some links:

Building your own Yagi (Math and more)
http://www.netscum.com/~clapp/wireless.html

Pringles Can Yagi Antenna (based on above link)
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448

A Home grown parabolic dish using an old Prime Star dish
http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro/Airport/Primestar/Primestar.html

Coffee Can Antenna's, Dual Alford Slot, Stove Pipe Slot, and Rib Cage Slot Antennas
http://www.qsl.net/wk8l/

How to Make a Simple 2.425GHz Helical Aerial for Wireless ISM Band Devices
http://users.bigpond.net.au/jhecker/

Simple Double Quad schematic
http://www.wlan2.dabsol.co.uk/simple_double_quad.gif (GIF image)

Guerilla net's colinear omni calculations
http://www.guerrilla.net/reference/antennas/2ghz_collinear_omni/

National Association for Amateur Radio (US) Antenna Design Book
http://www.arrl.org/catalog/?category=Antennas%2C+Transmission+Lines+%26+Propagation&words=&SelectCategory.x=5&SelectCategory.y=9

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Title: Wireless Network Access Point (WNAP) Set Up Guide, or: How To Set Up a TWCN Node
Authors: Jason Hammerschmidt (ffff654.noSPAM.at.yahoo.com), and Jason Ramsay-Brown
Contributors: Emir Alikadic, Hugh Reilly
Version: 1.0, April 2nd, 2002.

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