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3D Printing Antennas and Other Dark Arts
Karen Rucker
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Yes You Probably Know More Than Me
● B.S in Electrical Engineering, 2019
● Antenna Design Engineer in Aerospace, May 2019 - present
● HAM licensed since 2015
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Designing Stuff
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What’s an Antenna, Anyway?
“a means for radiating or receiving radio waves” - IEEE Standard Definitions of Terms for Antennas
The “I Totally Didn’t Forget” 6 m receiver antenna
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Bad Antenna, Bad!
Frequency&
Gain&
Polarization&
Pattern&
Bandwidth&
Impedance Match
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What Kind of Idiot Recommends Tutorials for a Software You Don’t Have?
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Design Resources That Have Helped Me
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Cool* Project I
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How Would You 3D Print an Antenna in Space? A Look at My Terrible No Good Undergrad Research
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What if I Did What They Did... But Worse?
“dichloromethane is especially poisonous. It has historically been the key ingredient in common paint stripper, but is being phased out due to its toxicity when used for DIY home projects.”
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3D printable model
15 dBi standard gain horn
Print Technology: FDM
Infill: 10%
Pattern: standard diamond fill
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The Simulation
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But There’s No Way That Worked, Right?
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Cool* Project II
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How to Talk to Aliens
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Breakthrough Listen / SETI Institute RF HackathonBreakthrough Listen, UC Berkeley SETI Research Center, & the SETI Institute invited applications from
● RF professionals● machine learning experts ● GNU Radio open source
community
to participate in a three-day community gathering & technical hackathon at the Allen Telescope Array (ATA). 17
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Hackathon Goals/Topics● Detection and characterization of radio signals, including deep learning
approaches.● Data capture, management, and quality assessment for radio systems.● RF front-end and antenna status and health management & assessment.● GNU Radio-based tools for real-time and offline processing at the ATA and
other radio astronomy facilities.● Tools & standards development for open source signal data formats (e.g.,
SigMF), and transitioning to those formats from existing bespoke formats.● Enabling citizen science and collaboration with the broader open source
community.
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ATA Background● 42 offset Gregorian telescopes at
Hat Creek Radio Observatory in California ○ plans to grow to 350+
● First of a new class of LNSD (large number of antennas, small diameter) cm-wave interferometers
● Began operation in October 2007
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Totally Not a Death Ray
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Triangular pyramidal log-periodic antenna (PLPA)● Frequency-independent behaviour -> ideal for broadband ● 2 antennas -> dual polarisation ● Original design:
○ Performs from 0.5 to 11.2 GHz ● Improved design:
○ Shortened feed structure fully contained in a vacuum radome, cooled to ~65K
○ Reduced noise factor by 12○ Performs from 0.9 to 18 GHz
■ difficult to find LNA w/ similar range.
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Issues● Mostly mechanical
○ Cryo breaking○ Circuit boards/soldering breaking
● Hot and cold loading difficulties● Have had to splice new SC ends on a few antennas due to high signal loss.● Only about half of ATA is the new feed style
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Antenna Health working groupTeam:
● Michelle Thompson, Open Research Institute
● Derek Kozel - GNU Radio, Cardiff University
● Katie Frey- Harvard & Smithsonian Library of the Center for Astrophysics
● Karen Rucker
Tasks:
● Multi-sensor data fusion● Data collection code clean-up● GNU Radio processing block
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Antenna Health example
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Almost The End
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Resources/Links● DIY 137 MHz WX SAT V-dipole antenna● Leap Australia - Rectangular Waveguide ANSYS HFSS● Radio Mobile Freeware by VE2DBE● Antenna Test Lab, 3D Printing Your Own Antennas● SETI Allen Telescope Array Overview ● Hacking SETI by Steve Croft● Primary Beam and Dish Surface Characterization at the Allen Telescope Array
by Radio Holography
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Summary
- Antennas can be hard- There’s no shaming in buying one!- Be patient, not intimidated
- The connector is always* the problem- *not always
- Even professionals have to tune, tune, tune- Antennas can be fun!
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