Yeah, the actual radiating elements just need to be able to survive their environment. But the feed is everything. Bandwidth, impedance, pattern. Everything is affected by the feed.
From: Cameron Crum Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2017 9:29 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Infinite Electronics Acquires KP Performance Antennas I'm sure Chuck will agree that in antenna design, the way you feed the elements is much more important that the elements themselves. It is easy to build a patch or dipole element using thin pieces of copper or aluminum. Feeding them correctly for impedance matching and pattern shaping is the hard part, and typically consists of very thin "stripline" transmission lines. Once you have the template though, stamping them out or laser cutting is pretty straight forward. Why use expensive materials and processes when you don't need to? On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: I had one of those omnis (either KP or L-Com, doesn’t matter) with the top blown off, I think it took a lightning hit. Anyway, I looked inside and was deeply disappointed. Maybe I don’t understand antenna design, but I expected something fancier and more substantial. Like 4 patch arrays with splitters all held precisely in place. It seemed like just a formed piece of tin slid inside a tube. Oh, and once the top was gone, some bees moved in. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Mathew Howard Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2017 10:08 AM To: af <af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Infinite Electronics Acquires KP Performance Antennas I think all (or at least most) of the KP sectors are pretty heavily customized, as I haven't seen anyone else selling the equivalents, but I suspect that they are all manufactured by Lanbowan... whether or not the internals are any different than what Lanbowan will sell to anyone else, I don't know. The dual polarity 5ghz omnis they sell are certainly the same thing as Chuck's (there are probably at least half a dozen different companies selling those in the US... including L-Com, interestingly). On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 9:07 AM, Colin Stanners <cstann...@gmail.com> wrote: >From my bit of research I believe that KP dual-frequency "combo" sectors are their own design / build, although I've never asked them. On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 8:48 AM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: Most of KP stuff came from Lanbowan. Same place I got my customized omni antennas. L-Com does similar, just import from China. So just adding Lanbowan to L-Com is not much of a change it doesn’t seem to me. I don’t think either company actually built anything themselves. From: That One Guy /sarcasm Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2017 5:42 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Infinite Electronics Acquires KP Performance Antennas L-Com/KP presents some interesting potential On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: Must be these guys: http://www.infiniteelectronics.com/ From: Timothy Steele Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2017 4:03 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: [AFMUG] Infinite Electronics Acquires KP Performance Antennas http://www.antennasonline.com/main/news/infinite-electronics-acquires-kp-performance-antennas/ -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
