Piezo Buzzers (discs) as Antennae

You been hanging out with Bill Beatty? Sounds like one of his wacky- enough-to-work ideas.

I think they're too small to use as "antennas", but...

It might be interesting to bounce microwaves off the brass side of one (polished to mirror brightness) for FM. I don't think it'd be very deep though; AFAIK they don't undergo much excursion. A cascade of them driven with enough delay between to account for time-of-flight?

Place two face-to-face and bounce a laser between them nearly perpendicularly to FM the beam?

Mark L. Fergerson

I'd think they could be used as some sort of patch antenna at microwave frequencies. Maybe even fairly broadband depending on the launch point. I think that some of the early GPS antennas weren't much bigger.

You keep putting "antenna" in quotes -- are you trying to receive vibrations in the air, the water, or the aether?

I wondered about that too - whether the OP is thinking of using them as electro-mechanical transducers.

I've used 40kHz transducer as transmitter and receiver (matched pairs), but it was around 1975 ;-) ...Jim Thompson

Sigh. I've got "antenna" locked in with EM from another thread in sci.physics.

Sure, that use of piezos as "antennas" is all over the web these days.

Duh.

Mark L. Fergerson

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=46rom the get go i thought OP was looking for something like the = Sparkfun SE-00639.