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Re: long antenna

From jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
Newsgroups sci.physics
Subject Re: long antenna
Date 2015-11-30 20:48 +0000
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benj <none@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/30/2015 02:01 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> wrote:
>>> On 11/28/2015 4:58 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>>>> gilber34 <fafa@invalid.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 11/27/2015 10:46 AM, benj wrote:
>>>>>> On 11/27/2015 02:01 AM, gilber34 wrote:
>>>>>>> On 11/26/2015 10:45 PM, benj wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 11/26/2015 08:37 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> perhaps not gamma ray, but you DO know that X-ray parabolic antennas
>>>>>> exist, right?
>>>>>
>>>>> using glancing, paraboioids and hyperboioids, not quite the same as a
>>>>> dish.  but my point was to counter the over generalization that EM
>>>>> frequency being the same.  Still waiting on the size of the 60 HZ dish
>>>>> for 20 dB gain...
>>>>
>>>> Pretty large, but the physical size is irrelevant; the gain of a dish
>>>> is a function of it's diameter in wavelengths, so the gain of a 3 lambda
>>>> 60 Hz dish is the same as the gain of a 3 lambda 60 GHz dish.
>>>
>>> as usual, WRONG.
>>
>> Nope.
>>
>> Then why do antenna books have nomographs of dB gain verssus physical
>> size with straight lines for frequency.
>>
>>> the 60Hz dish would be 17,794,063.6 meters wide or 11,056 miles wide or
>>> 100 times the diameter of the Earth. Impossable to build it at all.
>>
>> Not in space given enough time and money.
>>
>>> THE PHYSICAL SIZE IS THE ISSUE !
>>
>> Nope.
>>
>> Physical size only determines the econonomic practicably, not the RF
>> characteristics.
>>
>>> (what size waveguide do you feed a 60 Hz dish with ?)
>>
>> You assume due to your utter ignorance of antennas and RF in general
>> that all dishes are fed with waveguide; they are not. It is very
>> common to feed dishes in the lower microwave region and below with
>> coax.
>>
>>> your max surface roughness at 60GHz is what ?
>>
>> It is perfect because competant people were used to build it and
>> irrelevant to the fact that antennas scale in frequency.
>>
>>> How much beam taper do you illuminate the edges with to avoid backlobes
>>> at 60GHz? which would pick up the 60HZ earth very well. What would the
>>> F/B ratio be to pick up a 60Hz craft 1,000,000,000 miles out ?
>>
>> The same as at 60 GHz.
>>
>>>> The only issue with a dish at gamma or X-ray frquencies is that the
>>>> dish has to be made of a material that is reflective at those frequencies,
>>>
>>> which there are not any for a parabolic dish.
>>
>> Which is irrelevant to the fact that antennas scale in frequency.
>>
>> If you can find a material that is relective at gamma or X-ray frquencies,
>> then such a dish will perform just the same as any other dish at any
>> other frequency with the same diameter in wavelengths.
>>
>>> what is the max surface roughness you could have ? (hint: 1/4 lamda and
>>> how much is that?) can anybody do that yet ?
>>> so you are WRONG again, find the answer in ARRL, not.
>>
>> The requirements would be the same as any other dish at any other frequency
>> with the same diameter in wavelengths.
>>
>> The thing you are utterly unable to understand is that electromagnetic
>> theory of antennas is frequency independant.
>>
>> The practical ability to construct a given antenna may change with
>> frequency, but the electromagnetic theory does NOT.
> 
> Exactly correct. And in fact X-ray antennas have been built and used!
> They are very interesting practical physics.
> As jimp said the theory works exactly the same as at any frequency!
> 
> The trick with X-ray antennas is to get reflectivity and achieve the 
> accuracy of figure at the given wavelength.
> 
> The first was done very cleverly by not trying to come into a dish 
> perpendicularly like a typical dish antenna or optical mirror, but 
> building a very low off-axis parabola so the radiation comes in at a 
> very low angle. Things that are not so reflective straight-on become 
> very shiny at low angles! Cute!
> 
> And as for accuracy, well that just means that one must use modern 
> techniques VERY carefully and you can get some passable results even at 
> x-ray wavelengths.

I wonder how much babbling nonsense he would generate if I were to
bring up dielectric lens antennas, which work exactly like a magnifying
glass given he has already said RF does not work like light and
magnifying glasses?
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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