At 04:46 PM 7/14/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>But we make such a big deal out of having a 7.5 DB antenna rather than a 3.5
>DB antenna, and that's only 4.5 DB... :-)
<---Two reasons......Firstly antennas are a reciprocal device - they
benefit xmt AND rcv. Secondly, (on the xmt side) they're after any loss in
the system. Don't forget that a db loss figure is a percentage. So the more
power, the more actual power lost for a given loss factor.
Ken
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