Skew-Planar Wheel antenna

[Tom Azlin W7SUA]

Hi Alex,

Another antenna option might be the Lindenblad:

    http://www.amsat.org/amsat/articles/w6shp/lindy.html

We used a Lindenblad as the backup omni for the VWS ISS contact a while 
back.

73, tom w7sua

On 4/5/2015 4:11 PM, Alex Fraser wrote:
> First Person View (FPV)  is easy to accomplish in the radio control
> world these days.  Transmitters, receivers, cameras and antennas on
> numerous bands are readily available for purchase.  RC aircraft move in
> 3D so the antenna design must take this into consideration, so on the
> aircraft's transmitter omni directional circularly polarized are
> preferred.   The same would be true for the aircraft's control
> receiver's antenna.  There is one design that kept showing up in the ads
> and on the forums,  I could kind of remember seeing it in a Ham
> publication, but couldn't remember the name it goes by.  Most of the ads
> just called it a circularly polarized FPV antenna.  I kept looking until
> one web site used the name of the design, which I Googled using
> "Skew-Planar Wheel" as the search string.  I found this site by 2
> Canadian Hams http://www.ve3byt.com/SkewPlanarAntenna/   which is just
> what I was looking for.  There is enough info there to build one on any
> band you choose.