Under African Skies!

I have no idea why I spent 400 N$ on an Omni Antenna.

Last night I decided to finally build an Cantenna from cans lying around inmy office, which I have collected over the past few months. Mind you that is like only 4 different size cans.

Some time ago i spent 50 N$ on the N-type connector. It was just lying around till last night. Following a guide that I got off the net a couple of months ago. Well according to the measurements, my tin was was to short as in height. But the diameter as almost there, just 1-2 millimeters out. Looking at an image of guide, I just estimated where to punch the whole to insert the N-type connector. This being a temp experiment I only used double sided tape to fasten the connector to the tin. For the copper wire the gets attached to the connector on the inside of the tin, I remained with the 3cm length. I just attached the pictail I got with the other antenna, and test the signal reception using Netstumbler.

Behold it worked. I was able to get the same signal quality, more or less, with the cantenna than I get with the omni-antenna. Accessing an AP a good 300-400m away Having line of sight offcourse. Tonight I will actually point the cantenna at the other AP, to check if the signal improves. At the moment it is pointing in a 90 degree angle away from the AP.

Here is some images of the cantenna and the omni-antenna.

So this project cost me no more than the tin and the 50N$ for the N-type connector. Much better option that the commercial antenna, money wise.