For the best results use the antenna in the centre of a metal roof away from any roof bars or radio antennas.
Gps antenna metal sheet or not.
3mm at the bottom and 3 4mm on the sides at the farthest point antenna pattern made with lds and covered with visual painting.
Some fancy antennas do not require that you add a ground plane.
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The best solution is to have a dome or even hemispherical radome made from the best thin dielectric.
Transmitter with internal antenna.
A gps antenna needs to operate with signals from as low as 10 degrees above the horizon 80 degrees from normal incidence and at this angle even a thin sheet of plastic has a significant effect.
Low band main antenna implementation.
Placement of the gps antenna is crucial to the quality of the data recorded.
Antenna solution for full metal mobile device chassis metal box construction.
Do not mount the antenna close to the edge of the roof as reflections from the ground may interfere with the signals.
Antennas are located around the device with minimal ground clearance ground clearance.
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If there is no flat metal surface to mount the antenna you can create a ground plane by putting a 12 22cm diameter metal sheet directly below the antenna about 1 2 the signals wavelength which gives 1 4 wavelength per side.
Any metal close to a gps antenna can disturb the signal in an unpredictable way due to interference from reflections of weak gps signals.
Assemble and mount the gps receiver unit to either the inside of a window not low e glass or to an outside pole or rooftop.
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Transmitter with external antenna.
This mount is suggested only if you used a heavy enough gauge sheet metal for the ground plane the thin hardware store variety aluminum will buckle and throw the antenna off its vertical axis.
