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To: Revel
The viewer will have the directional antenna just like today.but it will be smaller.A smaller antenna has less capture area,so to insure a good picure a high gain version is needed. Higher directionality is one price of higher gain. So all the viewers point their antennas at one tower and do not have to turn their antenna when changing channels.

It is also possible that the best transmitting site could be at the edge of the desired viewers' area,and then directional transmitting antennas are a good answer.

Picture the various patterns a lawn sprinkler may be set to;sometimes you want a wedge,somtimes a circle or half circle. Or a cloverleaf,fat or narrow.

111 posted on 02/09/2006 6:57:22 PM PST by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a creditcard?)
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To: hoosierham

We had a radio station once that came in really well. The radio station then boasted that they were going to boost there power. They did so, but then we could not really get them anymore. The reason was that we were south of them and they decided that there market was more to the north. So they used a directional atenna. The result was that even though they increased there power- We were cut off from them. So I am kind of a skeptic of directional atennas. It better for those on the front side and bad for those on the back side.


113 posted on 02/09/2006 7:44:15 PM PST by Revel
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