In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Matt Ettus" writes: >Is there really anything in particular which is different about the >antenna requirements of timing receivers as compared to ordinary >high-quality receivers? The timing antennas seem to be in pointy >radomes, so that tells me they are probably quad-helixes rather than >patch antennas. How is that advantageous for timing in particular?
All the ones I've seen are patches. I would suspect that the higher domes is a concession to weather: when mounted on a building or tower, a steeper angle of the surface will collect less snow and dirt. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
