Vendor for compatible rp-sma antenna? potential for bundle inclusion?

[cicavey]

Any links to purchase a compatible rp-sma antenna for 915mhz? Have you considered sourcing antenna for your bundle? I'd be happy to pay.

Hadn't checked your site in a bit (I've got a few Moteino's floating around the house) and was very excited to see the MightyHat. Headed off to Amazon/Adafruit to pick up an rpi2 and accessories. Felix - thanks in advance for all of the work that you do.

[Felix]

cicavey,
Thanks for the feedback,
For some reason the SMA connectors are not really easy to find and not cheap. RP are somewhat more common that I can see. Sourcing them from digikey or sparkfun is not worthwhile though.
Sparkfun has both in single quantities, right now I only have a few RP-SMA left to bundle with MightyHat.

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/592
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/593

They also seem to have some antennas but not sure about frequencies, browse around maybe they got sub ghz.

Digikey has a large selection of antennas. I have used these:

http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?keywords=ANT-916-CW-RCS-ND


http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?keywords=1173-1023


http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?keywords=ant-916-mhw-sma-s

[cicavey]

Thanks!

[HeneryH]

Old topic but my ecosystem was built on the 433mhz transceivers so I was thinking of this antenna

https://www.digikey.com/products/en?keywords=ant-433-cw-hwr-rps-nd



The tech guy was talking 1/4 wave, 1/2 wave and full wave.  I'm more software engineer rather than rf engineer so his suggestion that this 1/4 wave was fine for in home distances sounded OK to me.

[Kilo95]

Generally a 1/2 wave antenna should have more gain than a 1/4 wave (better TX and better RX). 1/4 wave on 433mhz should be more than sufficient for normal home distances. If something is blocking the signal from the Pi, you could get a foot or so SMA coax jumper and relocate the antenna some. 

I wanted the 433mhz moteinos when I bought mine just because that's what I wanted. Lol. No scientific reason. Felix talked me into the 915mhz ones. My gateway Mote and RPi are in the basement along with a Weathershield and Sonarmote. I have another Weathershield out in my garage. I have no problem getting them to work on 915 MHz. So....if my 915s work fine with 1/4 wave or 1/2 wave antennas (I have done both for kicks and giggles), a 1/4 wave 433mhz antenna will be fine for uou