rf 433 problem with arduino

MikeML

Joined Oct 2, 2009
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How big an antenna on the transmitter?

How big an antenna on the receiver?

To get any reasonable range, both of the antennas must be a full-length half-wave center-fed dipole at 433megHz.

dipole length = 3e10/(2.05*433e6) = 27.7cm

Using full size dipoles, I get a range of >200m using the cheap Ebay 315MHz modules.
 
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