--- Philip <joyphil@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Neville I hope it is a good sign that we can reduce > this debate to one > simple question. I noted that at times we were at > cross purposes. I want to > keep it to one simple point at a time. Hence to this > point, > when I said, the > > 18inch dish , because of its > > size has to look at a much smaller part of the > sky. > > The receiving element > > with its amplifier is placed above the dish at the > > focal point of all > > parallel rays that reach the surface of the dish. > > Neville said. > No. This is not true. Such a receiver does not > produce > some sort of focussed beam, as a parabolic mirror > does. > > Neville sorry but you are wrong. Please check the > following out.....I append > here information in support of what I said, that it > is indeed analogous to > the mirror. Dear Philip, I agree that we should keep this to one point at a time. Since a mobile phone is a receiver and transmitter of microwave radiation, from and to a mast that we often don't even see, then why do we not need a small dish on the top of our phone? And why do we not need to point the aerial of the phone towards the mast? (It's the same question really.) Neville. ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com