On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Alan B. Pearce wrote:

>> The wavelength at 2.4 GHz is around 12.5cm = around 5 inches.
>> Do you think that the boats are so stable that they are able
>> to hold the positions so exactly that the waves will be
>> compensated to zero?
>
>
> Well that depends on the water conditions. If there is no wind at all, it
> could well be possible.

Even is there is no wind the waves will not cancel perfectly. Think 
about it, the reflected wave travels a longer path and suffers one lossy 
reflection. It also gets polarized so vertical polarization would be 
better than horizontal. You can probably expect the difference at 
maximum canceling to be 10dB or more. But that would ruin the signal 
budget anyway.

Peter
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