At 12:36 PM 8/1/01 -0400, Sean Breheny wrote:
>Hi Scott and Dave,
>
>I can see how Dave's point would be relevant in general, but if the same
>antenna and orientation was used in both cases, it shouldn't matter.

It does. Picture two 1/4 wave antennas separated by significant space.
BOTH of them, have significant lobes pointing straight up.
This means that the transmitter wastes a lot of power heating the sky, and
the receiver is loosing significant gain as well.


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