[opendtv] Re: Omnidirectional RECEIVE antennas with gain

  • From: Morris Jones <mojo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 10:34:40 -0700

John Willkie wrote:
> The wider the reception angle, the lower the gain.   The narrower the
> reception angle, the higher the gain.
> 
> Somehow this escaped you in all your years of education?  It was covered in
> my first or second semester in a junior college program.

If you narrow the angle vertically, you can still have gain in all the 
directions that matter.  You really only care about two dimensions for 
terrestrial RF, after all.

This part must have escaped you.  :)

Mojo
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Morris Jones
Monrovia, CA
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