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"Better" when the goal is a very narrow beam pattern and minimal side- and back-lobes. That isn't always the goal. For instance, putting your entire FCC city-
by dbcurtis 8y ago
"Better" when the goal is a very narrow beam pattern and minimal side- and back-lobes. That isn't always the goal.
For instance, putting your entire FCC city-of-license within your grade A signal contour from X miles away at a bearing of B. Or, in one case I am aware of, covering your puny city of license in one direction, and incidentally getting good coverage into the much bigger city off the back of the beam so that your sales department can get some traction selling advertising.
- walrus01 8y agoNot my field, only related to it, but looking at the ERI antenna catalog, they resemble human designed variations on yagi, dipole and log periodic antennas... https://www.eriinc.com/catalog/antennas/ https://www.eriinc.com/catalog/antennas/
- heavenlyblue 8y agoOr using a phased array that can generate practically any shape of the signal.