There has been a lot of forum discussion about the antenna ground plane. I found some literature from UBlox on the topic: GPS Antennas: RF design considerations for u-blox GPS recievers (pdf) And here is the datasheet on the antenna supplied with Reach: Tallysman TW4721 (pdf) What I got out of …

I am the Director of Sales and Marketing for Tallysman. We recommend a ground plane of 10cm. The ground plane should be symmetrical about the antenna and perfectly flat. The cable exiting the antenna should be routed under the ground plane as close to the housing of the antenna as possible. It d…

Antenna Ground Plane

Reach Module / M+ / M2 Hardware integration

kk6mrp (Weston Miller) April 10, 2016, 5:31am 4

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So… I don’t see why aluminum wouldn’t work.

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