The BIG and SMALL ANTENNA topic part 1

You may also use a very easy to build antenna, that provides ~2dB gain, while being electrically short cutted, which increases parasitic rejection: The J-Pole antenna. You may ust this calculator to determine the dimensions:
http://hamuniverse.com/jpole.html

At 867 MHz your antenna will be ~25cm long and will fit into a 16mm electrical plastic conduit.
At the base of the antenna I have winded 3 loops of the coax cable to symmetrize the signal (balun).
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The antenna is built in minutes…In the last picture the black wire loop was just used transiently to pull the antenna into the plastic conduit without staining the balun loops.

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