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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Meander PCB Antenna Design</title><link>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/15469/meander-pcb-antenna-design</link><description>I have meander antenna design on my board with matching network(similar to PCA10031).
Since I don&amp;#39;t have access to VNA or Spectrum Analyzer for tuning antenna, I am tuning my board by comparing RSSI value of my board with PCA10028 with the help nRF Connect</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 13</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2016 10:18:24 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/15469/meander-pcb-antenna-design" /><item><title>RE: Meander PCB Antenna Design</title><link>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/59083?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2016 10:18:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:a85aeb7e-8c85-458e-9ae4-4694c6930664</guid><dc:creator>Ole Bauck</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Nordic also offers to tune customers antenna as most don&amp;#39;t have the expensive equipment (like spectrum analyzer). To do so open a case on &lt;a href="https://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/nordic/mypage"&gt;mypage&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Meander PCB Antenna Design</title><link>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/59084?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2016 17:15:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:b96e6aa9-36a5-4a13-abb8-191b7b7b4261</guid><dc:creator>Locky</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Simply put no.  But it depends on how good you need your RF performance to be.  I doubt you&amp;#39;d ever really be able to optimize the design with this method as there are a variety of factors that go into good RF.   Frequency Tuning, Return Loss, Bandwidth, Efficiency...   If you need a proof on concept and you followed a reference layout design perfectly then your method could work to get a decent performance.  But it won&amp;#39;t optimized.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I didn&amp;#39;t mean to sound negative, RF design is an extremely complex area.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>