How to and tips from RFShop blog
Unboxing the wideband directional antenna
We keep talking about the 4G directional antenna, and have demonstrated the great performance one can expect from this antenna. In this video we run through the contents of this great antenna, and highlight the...
How an external antenna can improve a decent 4G internet connection
This is the next video in a series looking at how you can improve your 4G connection using external antennas. In this video, David attempts to improve his 4G internet connection using the Poynting 4G LPDA antenna. Watch the...
Measuring antenna radiation patterns to understand your 4G antenna or WiFi antenna better
In this video we demonstrate the test setup used to generate antenna radiation patterns. The anechoic (i.e. no reflection) chamber eliminates reflections from the outside world, and you can clearly see how this antenna...
CommsConnect 2019
In November we attended CommsConnect2019 in Melbourne. We had our stand, and once again it was a bit of an experiment to see what type of expo setup we should use as displaying a niche but important feature of wireless technology is quite a challenge.In the setup...
Product and Services Overview
We often get asked for a summary on what we offer. It's not fair to assume that our website tells the whole story, as you can browse as much as you want but it may not present you specific detail on types of products, partner companies or our broader capabilities.In...
Who is Black Art Technologies?
You may have noticed that we refer a lot to Black Art Technologies (or BAT in short). Black Art Technologies is the same group of engineers as RFShop Australia, trading as Black Art Technologies. We have 40+ years of antenna and RF system design experience and have...
RFShop & BAT Mission, Vision and Values
As a technical company it's very tempting to start a conversation by telling people what we do. Imagine the excitement in the room when you start a conversation like this: "What do I do? Well, I build coaxial cables and sell antennas for a living". I guess you can...
Top 3 SMA Questions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez0s64DU-8g Top 3 SMA questions Over the last 3 years (well, in-fact more than that) I have come to realise that there is an ongoing confusion about SMA connectors. I can appreciate where the confusion comes from and in these images...
Top 3 ways to boost mobile data
There are a number of ways to improve cellular coverage using antennas. Not all options can support all network operators, and not all options will fit everybody's budget. Also, some of these may simply not work (at all) for a particular setup, so it's always good to...
Identifying Coaxial Connectors
It can be quite confusing to specify coaxial connectors particularly when they can be “reverse polarity” or “reverse gender”. In the good old days, before some bright spark decided to introduce RP types there were just two types of SMA and other similar connectors. The plug had a male pin and the jack had a female pin. Too easy. The reverse SMA plug, RP-SMA plug, instead, has a female pin (4th pic down) and the reverse SMA jack has a male pin (3rd pic down). Unfortunately there seems to be an increasing tendency to refer to the RP-SMA plug as “RP-SMA male”. We use the term RP-SMA plug female pin , because, from what we know of sex, there are no male elements at all in RP-SMA plugs.