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If I understand correctly, is the application of this to quickly switch the direction of sending/receiving? Are there any other applications?
> The principle was first published by Walter Rotman and R. F. Turner in 1963 Astonishing nominative determinism there
I myself have a CTO of a plumbing company in my family from Flushing MI, but that's ever so slightly different.
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It does do directional steering. No active array components or physical movement are needed. > If the output ports are connected to individual antennas in an antenna array, this allows shaping the beam in different directions by switching which input port the signal is sent to. From TFA. Presumably the geometrical shape of the lens is dictated by solving for useful phase shifts for different input points. Otherwise y…
>It does do directional steering. No active array components or physical movement are needed. By... plugging and unplugging antenna elements? It makes a fixed directional antenna element array which is configurable to a small degree by choosing which antenna elements to connect and their spatial arrangement. The radiation pattern can only change by physically plugging or moving antenna elements.
No. The antenna elements are always plugged in the same way. By sampling/introducing the signal at a different physical position on the lens (or multiple positions simultaneously), you create different physical distances and phase shifts for each element, and therefore a different beam direction.
...Apropos of nothing, this reminds me that a long ago, I played on a Minecraft server where one of the boys made a piston display with controlled by a pressure plate array. I was shocked by how he managed to transmit the signal with a simple wire. Maybe it was a similar idea, using the propagation distance...
> The principle was first published by Walter Rotman and R. F. Turner in 1963 Astonishing nominative determinism there
Tito Beveridge creator of Tito Vodka, Ed Currie creator of the Carolina Reaper and Pepper X, Keith Weed the president of Britain’s Royal Horticultural Society, Usain Bolt one of the quickest people in the world, Thomas Crapper - commonly but incorrectly attributed with the invention of the modern toilet - founder of Crapper & Co plumbing company, meteorologist Sarah Blizzard, LEO Rob Banks, Donna/Mike/Bobbie Singer a…
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>It does do directional steering. No active array components or physical movement are needed. By... plugging and unplugging antenna elements? It makes a fixed directional antenna element array which is configurable to a small degree by choosing which antenna elements to connect and their spatial arrangement. The radiation pattern can only change by physically plugging or moving antenna elements.
> By... plugging and unplugging antenna elements? No. The antenna elements are always plugged in the same way. By sampling/introducing the signal at a different physical position on the lens (or multiple positions simultaneously), you create different physical distances and phase shifts for each element, and therefore a different beam direction. ...Apropos of nothing, this reminds me that a long ago, I played on a Mi…
Which is accomplished with active components (or multiple frontends). The word "active" is carrying a lot of weight in what isn't actually that important of a distinction
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Tito Beveridge creator of Tito Vodka, Ed Currie creator of the Carolina Reaper and Pepper X, Keith Weed the president of Britain’s Royal Horticultural Society, Usain Bolt one of the quickest people in the world, Thomas Crapper - commonly but incorrectly attributed with the invention of the modern toilet - founder of Crapper & Co plumbing company, meteorologist Sarah Blizzard, LEO Rob Banks, Donna/Mike/Bobbie Singer a…
These are called aptonyms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym?useskin=vector