Taking a quick look at a Fractal Antenna 

Extremely curious!

Its snake oil. Paste over the detail in each triangular pane with silver conductive ink and see if there's any significant change at all.

@@urgtuiop5455 I agree but they do have a die hard fanbase

"Fractal Antennas" are like "Metamaterials" designs literally where very specific design requirements have to be defined and the designs made to meet those requirements. The range of shapes alone can be overwhelming and at least is to me. They're great for reducing the size of antennas and have really enabled wireless communications to get so small without bonkers sized antennas. They're more-so a thing in the cell phone world frequencies on up, though does seem like there are some VHF and UHF capabilities that are successful, albeit not marketed anywhere I've seen. Kind of reminds me of a situation where stating traces are voodoo and no good and dead bug or breadboard or something other designs are better. There are definitely design considerations that need to be made to be effective. Might even be the designs have to be used to be effective in the situations requirements where size and weight are the limiting factors. However, well thought out and designed traces, stripline and or microstrip can create a whole nother world of potential. Similar with fractal antennas and metamaterials. They're insanely amazing IMO. One design that gets me amazed seeing, is the design where is like a sleeve that is a roll of fractal antennas on a sheet that goes over a traditional single straight wire element, say like an old fashioned car antenna. Last I knew there was a video on YT with the before and after effect shown on a VNA. Amazing change in band capabilities performance.

Well if it is not tuned well you can scan it, scale it, print it on a PCB with toner transfer and have a tuned one in a few iterations. would be nice to see the radiation pattern.

Like in this situation, where I do definitely agree, or in general? Are fractal antennas not used in cell phones all over the place successfully? Seems to me in generally stating "fractal antenna" or even "metamaterial" is a scam, is false. Again, I do agree for most being sold some generic product, is most likely maybe. The "fractal antenna" and "metamaterial" designs need a more detailed and subject matter expert understanding like I find analogous to dead bug, breadboard and PCB trace design to microstrip and or stripline designs. RF systems wouldn't be so good now days without the transition to PCB trace design and then for the higher frequency systems microstrip and or stripline designs. Similar speaking situation. Junk if not well planned design and for specific implementations. Maybe even can say like a different situation where like RF versus Optical designs for the transition from below to above the microwave range, albeit not really so far different in design carrier current and free air coupling methods.

"Electro culture" is garbage. Plants dont grow with electricity.

Its return loss its not the same as VSWR

@@andrewmcneil I'm with @MrJeffschefke, I understand return loss (normally in dB? for a logmag diagram), SWR etc. but I'm not totally sure how your setup is scaled so I don't think I understand the absolute values of your measurements (the relative shape is clear of course) Maybe you could do a short video on your setup and how you calibrate it, etc. I think I'm not alone at enjoying a testgear video. :) Otherwise a very interesting antenna design, I always thought this kind of "regular" fractal design is more of a theoretical thing but it seems to be used after all.

@@gammaleader96 Will do

Thanks, consider me on the same group of audiences.

@@andrewmcneilThanks, I was wondering about it myself.

I think this is the reason why they won’t send them to me to review!😁

13.56 Mhz is an interesting choice for a home hobbiest. ;)

Please tell us why 13.56 sounds interesting

Hi. I'm interested in designing & building a Minkowski fractal loop antenna for 14 & 28 MHz. Jack

There is no easy when it comes to fractal antennas. I think to truly understand them you have to be into mathematics more than RF engineering

it's actually the tri force of power

Experimental Ground plane with a Fractal design of radiator

😂😂