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"(Dish antennas) require a lot of power to operate". "Our antenna is lightweight, low-power..." What does she mean power to operate? When steering the dish wit
by Sporktacular 3y ago
"(Dish antennas) require a lot of power to operate". "Our antenna is lightweight, low-power..."
What does she mean power to operate? When steering the dish with motors? Or is it in some special category for efficiency.
- klyrs 3y agoMy guess is that they're talking about the radiation efficiency -- the strength of signal you get for a unit of power. I would interpret that sentence to mean that communicating with a satellite over a dish antenna will take more power than using this helical antenna in its short state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_efficiency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_efficiency