New RF Explorer Near Field Antenna Kit

[Ariel Rocholl]

Using the same technology of RFEAN25 near field H-Loop antenna, we are happy to announce the availability of the RF Explorer Near Field Antenna Kit at Seeedstudio: link

It is a collection of high performance set of 4 antennas designed for the most demanding RF diagnosis tasks:

• RFEAH-25 – 25mm H-Loop
  
• RFEAH-15 – 15mm H-Loop
  
• RFEAH-5 – 5mm H-Loop
  
• RFEAE-10 – 10mm E-Field
  

The three magnetic H-Loop antennas are very sensitive, compact and easy to use antennas for all sort of radiation sources. As the antenna diameter gets shorter, the antenna increase spatial resolution at the cost of some sensitivity loss; you should select RFEAH-25 for best sensitivity with connectors, large ICs and isolated signal traces, whereas RFEAH-5 works best for very narrow selective work in a populated PCB with close-by signal traces. RFEAH-15 is a good in-between compromise.

The electric field RFEAE-10 is offers a remarkable spatial resolution to determine the exact component in the PCB causing a problem, no matter how small it is.

For more details, please visit Specifications page: link

[Ariel Rocholl]

Dedicated page for the RF Explorer Near Field Antenna Kit: www.rf-explorer.com/rfeak 

Datasheet will be available in a few days.

Best Wishes,

RF Explorer Team

[Ariel Rocholl]

Datasheet for the Antenna Kit is available in the dedicated specification page, as well as in this direct link.

Thanks everyone for the outstanding market acceptance of our kit.

[RF Explorer]

We have been really busy since Near field antennas were released. All produced kits have been helping a lot of users to easily diagnose circuits with a very modest investment, and we are receiving very positive feedback from many applications. Thank you everyone for your support!
We are happy to release the full set of calibration files and updated datasheet for RF Explorer Near Field Antenna Kit as well as RF Explorer RFEAH-25 antenna. These include now support for 10mil, 20mil, 32mil (0.8mm) and 64mil (1.6mm) FR-4 standard PCB Microstrip traces.

There is plenty of updated information now in the datasheet to get the most of your antennas in all possible situations.
The additional calibration files can be used in RF Explorer for Windows for automatic amplitude adjustment, please follow described steps in the updated datasheet. These calibration files can be also used with other external tools as they are CSV files easily exported to any format.

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