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There are many different types of antennas to suit different applications. For instance, there are antennas for portable devices, passenger vehicles, rugged mining and construction vehicles, building infrastructure and high performance GNSS antennas.
Step Global provides an exhaustive range of antennas, covering types such as single and multiband, omnidirectional and directional, embedded, covert, on-glass, in-building, panel, yagi, GNSS, Iridium, MIMO up to 9 elements, bidirectional, timing, whip less, surface mount, pole mount, infrastructure and mobile, rugged and vibration resistant.
We have antennas for use in every industry, and we work with agriculture, banking and financial, cellular, education, government, healthcare, heavy equipment, hospitality, manufacturing, marine, military and defence, mining and construction, public safety, rail, retail, SCADA, telematics, transportation, utilities, oil and gas, and wireless telecom.
Product Code: GPS-TMG-26
Brand: PCTel
Made to address the attenuation issues of congested cell-site applications, this GPS timing reference antenna features multi-stage filtering and a proprietary quadrifiliar helix design to provide superior out-of-band rejection and lower elevation pattern performance than traditional patch antennas. Superior filtering – Quadrifiliar helix design with multi-stage filtering provides...
Product Code: GPS-TMG-HR-26N
Brand: PCTel
These timing reference antennas feature narrow band, high rejection filtering to support long-lasting, trouble-free deployments in congested cell-site applications with severe interference around the GPS frequency. The unique proprietary radome shape sheds water and ice, and eliminates bird perching problems. Narrow band, high rejection filtering for GPS applications facing severe interference...
Product Code: L1L2-RA-1
Brand: GPS Source
The L1L2-RA-1 is a dual-band active L1/L2 GPS antenna, designed for operation with the US DoD DAGR military grade receiver. The L1L2-RA-1 is available as a flush magnet mount designed to handle force up to 20Gs or hard mounted, both with SMA connector and various radome colors. It is compact, lightweight and water resistant. DURABLE, HI PRECISION, BUILT TO LASTFor surface mobility, the GPS...
Product Code: L1L2-RA-2
Brand: GPS Source
The L1L2-RA-2 is a dual-band active L1/L2 GPS antenna, designed for operation with the US DoD DAGR military grade receiver. The L1L2-RA-2 is available as a hard mount, with SMA, TNC, or N connector and various radome colors. It is compact, lightweight and water resistant. DURABLE, HIGH PRECISION, BUILT TO LASTFor surface mobility, the GPS Source Mil-Spec DAGR antenna offers exceptional...
Product Code: 1330FW
Brand: PCTel
These marine antennas are specifically designed to withstand continuous, long-term exposure to challenging and highly corrosive environments. The element features a proprietary quadrifilar helix design to provide better gain on the horizon than can be achieved with a patch element. Supports long-term exposure to rugged or highly corrosive environmentsRugged – made for marine...
Product Code: 3951D-HR
Brand: PCTel
This GPS antenna provides high gain, superior out-of-band rejection and a reliable, clear signal in high RF field applications with no ground field. It features a custom ceramic patch element for maximum signal reception, circuit protection, multi-stage LNA circuit and dual high rejection SAW filters. For GPS tracking and timing in high RF field applications High gain – 25 dB gain...
An antenna, also known as an aerial, is a tuned physical element to match a specific frequency range. Antennas either capture or transmit electromagnetic energy in the form of a radio signal. The simplest form of antenna is a length of wire. Where the length is equivalent to a RF signal wavelength, then the wire will match that frequency and receive the signal. The signal is then passed into an RF receiver. Because it is not practical to have long lengths of wire, then more compact physical elements are used. One version is to use copper wire trace on a circuit board, and the other is to use a ceramic patch antenna. A combination of both can be used to create a combined antenna which can receive/transmit over different frequency bands by using the different elements.
Some antennas are known as passive antennas. These do not have any active components such as amplifiers. Passive antennas are typically radiating antennas for transmitting RF signals.
Active antennas have amplifiers and filters built-in with the antenna element. These are antennas that typically receive weak signals. An example of these are satellite navigation antennas due to the very weak signal strength and noisy environment.
One of the most important aspects to consider when choosing an antenna is which frequency bands you need to cover.
Some examples of the frequency bands available from Step Global are:
Bluetooth (2.4 GHz), Cellular + WiFi, Cellular 3G (850 MHz/1900 MHz), Cellular 4G (700 MHz, 1700 - 2100 MHz, 1900 MHz and 2500 - 2700 MHz), Cellular 5G (600 MHz - 6 GHz), Cellular CBRS/5G NR (3300 MHz-4200 MHz), Cellular LTE (700 MHz / 900MHz), FirstNet (758 - 798 MHz), GNSS (B1 - 1559-1591 MHz), GNSS (E1 - 1575.420 MHz), GNSS (G1 - 1589.0625-1605.375 MHz), GNSS (G2 - 1242.9375-1248.625 MHz), GNSS (G3 - 1201 MHz), GNSS (L1 - 1575.42 MHz), GNSS (L2 - 1227.6 MHz), GNSS (L5 - 1176.45 MHz), GNSS + Cellular, GNSS + Cellular + WiFi, GNSS + WiFi, GNSS/GPS, Iridium (1616–1626.5 MHz), LoRa/ISM/SRM (806-960 MHz), Lowband/Amateur Radio (27- 60MHz), RFID (806- 960), UHF (380-520 MHz), VHF (132-174 MHz), WiFi (2.4 GHz, 5&6 GHz)
Step Global are authorised distributors of the world’s leading antenna brands. We have strong relationships with brands that you can trust, such as Mobile Mark, Trimble, Protempis, Multiband, Maxtena, Sanav, Harxon and GPS Source.
Step Global provides both basic and complex customisation of antennas.
Basic customisation of antennas covers cable type and length, and connector types. For this type of customisation, there is no minimum order quantity required.
For complex antenna customisation where an antenna must be engineered to meet an agreed specification, there is a minimum order quantity required. Our team can work with you to find a solution for your custom antenna requirements.
The Step Global team has over 60 years of experience in RF design and applications. We assist our customers in a range of services such as site surveys right through to diagnosing and rectifying performance issues. Our Australian-based application engineering team can work with any industry we sell our products into.
We are a stocking distributor on most popular line items, and we will work with our customers to ensure that they are covered for all key projects and applications.
If you are unsure of which antenna to choose or you would like to discuss your project further, contact the Step Global team on + 61 3 9551 7334 or email sales@stepglobal.com.
