Honesty and integrity are appreciated as much as good technical information
Scott.
You've supplied both. Thanks.
Phil
At 09:04 PM 1/1/99, you wrote:
>
>Well, I don't enjoy this but
>
>MEA CULPA
>
>My statements regarding S/N and horizontal directivity were incorrect.
>
>Review of the CCIR report I cited (CCIR 322-2) has a specific paragraph
>regarding directivity and polarization effects on received noise, noting
>that some measurement locals showed improvement using directional antennas,
>but some did not. Further a statement is made that theoretically there
>should be no difference.
>
>And considering the definition of antenna gain, that has to be correct that
>it makes no difference. Now, it still may make a *local* difference, but
>wrt "isotropic" noise there is no S/N boost.
>
>My apologies to the lists for speaking too quickly.
>
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