Greg Chartrand wrote:
> I have been reading the thread regarding skew posted
> by W7IUV. I wonder how much if any of the reported
> skew is the result of the angle from which the signal
> is arriving?
Not having the benefit of an education in particle physics, I'm not confused
with the "facts" or with relativity, but isn't it just a case that the RF
scatters in direction, and only some gets through? If the RF coming direct is
absorbed en route and doesn't make it, then what we hear will be the scattered
stuff that isn't absorbed? So we'll always hear it coming from the direction
that isn't being absorbed?
As long as there is atmospheric refraction, anyway.
I'm the chap who discovered by accident (in 1966) that my big antenna worked
vastly better when one end had fallen down and was on the ground - I hadn't
time
to put it back up, so attached the matching unit to it where it was. I'm sure
the inverted L had been invented long before, but I'd not heard of it.
Serendipity rules! Must get a decent top band antenna back up soon...
Keith
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Keith Jillings
G3OIT GW3OIT G-UTSY at EGMC
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