calculation of helix antenna dimensions is pretty easy. It can be done with an Excel spreadsheet, you can download it here. All neccessary formulas are in the screenshot of this spreadsheet above.

Feedpoint impedance of air wound helix antennas in axial mode is 137 Ohm (almost purely resistive). Matching is required if 50 Ohm coax cable is to be connected. There are two common ways to do this matching. Either with a coax section or a stripline above a ground plane, both a quarter wavelenght long and of proper resistance. The "proper resistance" is calculated as follows:

As calculated above, a quaterwave long matching "device" having an impedance of 83 Ohm is required.

To obtain the needed impedance of 83 Ohm, for round coaxial sections the ratio of outher/inner conductor must be about 4. If the outher conductor is of square shape, the factor lowers to 3.4.

More easy to construct mecanically is a quarterwave long matching stripline section over a groundplane. In practise, the first quater turn (from the feed point) of the helix is a copper strip of a certain width and distance from the groundplane (the helix reflector). See the picture above for details.

I have found different formulas to calculate impedances of striplines over a ground plane. In the picture above, the tree most "close" are shown. I finally used formula number 3. A quarter wavelength long (58 mm) piece of copper sheet, 0.5 mm thick, 12.5 mm wide and at 5 mm distance from the reflector will do the job for a 1296 MHz helix. For 13 cm, the piece should be about 3.2 mm.