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Agreed, we have beamforming. Beamforming, to recap, uses multiple radio transmitters acting in a coordinated fashion, along with specific fast calculations --
by peter_d_sherman 2y ago
Agreed, we have beamforming.
Beamforming, to recap, uses multiple radio transmitters acting in a coordinated fashion, along with specific fast calculations -- to modify the conditions of the combined radio wave at a specfic point (or points) of space...
So agreed, we have beamforming.
Now with respect to the various arrays of antennas acting in a coordinated fashion, aka "phased arrays" / "phased array antennas" -- if I think about say, a Starlink Dish -- I think about a whole series of antenna circuits -- on a 2D flat plane:
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=starlink+dish+teardown https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=starlink+dish+teard...
This seems very similar to The University Of Alaska's HAARP:
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=haarp https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=haarp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_Active_Auroral_...
https://haarp.gi.alaska.edu/ https://haarp.gi.alaska.edu/
But... that's not my point!
See, these (basically 2D X x Y grid) designs for beamforming radio transmitters are great and all, but I'd be immensely curious if there weren't some interesting 3D antenna geometries that could be couldn't be coupled with beamforming technologies... for example, what happens if someone were to make a 3D phi-spiral phased array transmitting (or receiving?) antenna array?
Some 3D version of something like:
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=phi+spiral https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=phi+spiral
Or potentially like:
https://cosmometry.net/phi-double-spiral-field-patterning#:~:text=Cross%2Dsection%20of%20a%20Torus https://cosmometry.net/phi-double-spiral-field-patterning#:~...
Or perhaps like:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=230792927111973&id=106168786241055&set=a.112729698918297 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=230792927111973&id=1...
Or even something like:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTS3UsPvxuStfe0VI3M1SleaNnHt4R8tv https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTS3UsPvxuStfe0VI3M1S...
You know, get something like that working with some Tesla Coils (https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=tesla+coil https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=tesla+coil
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_coil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_coil) and see what happens!
In other words, perhaps there may be more possibilities to explore here...
But yes, agreed, we have beamforming!