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USER MANUAL
V0.904
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STM110C User Manual V0.904
February 18, 2008 2:00 PM
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STM110C
3.2
Antenna Mounting
Positioning and choice of receiver and transmitter antennas are the most important factor
in determining system transmission range. The STM110C transmitter module is supplied
with a soldered whip antenna as standard. By using that antenna, very compact sensor
equipment can be implemented with good radio transmission characteristics. For mounting
the antenna, some notes should be considered to optimize system performance:
For best transmitter performance, the space immediately around the antenna has to be
strictly considered, since this has a strong influence on screening and detuning the anten-
na. The antenna should be drawn out as far as possible and must be never cut off. Mainly
the far end of the wire should be mounted as far as possible away from all metal parts, PCB
strip lines and fast logic components (e.g. the STM microprocessor). Don’t short the whip
(
λ
/4
).
For a good antenna performance don’t roll up or twist the whip and please draw
attention to an overall whip distance of at least 10 mm (20 mm is better) from
any PCB strip, ground plane and conductive part or electric part.
Note that whip antennas do not show any directional effects under free-field radio-wave
propagation conditions (spot-wise radiator). The RSSI voltage output of the receiver mod-
ule can be used for evaluating the influence of intuitive RF optimizations.
STM110C: L=150
±
2 mm, color orange
Figure 8: Specification of the whip antenna