If we say that antennae can be directional we really do know what we are talking about, OK?
Not if it's a solid piece of bare metal is isn't.
If we say that antennae can be directional we really do know what we are talking about, OK?
Please tell me again how the metal antenna pictured above knows which direction the photons are hitting it from.
Hey guys - sorry for my delay in addition to this thread - my housemate got banned for abusing some flat-earthers and our IP got banned so I cannot participate easily.
As for Tom Bishop:
FOR FUCKS SAKE!!
Tom, many people have alluded to the technology I have been speaking of in the posts I have made.
It seems you think Yagi beams, or any other directional beams that rely on amplificational or "gain" technology are beyond you. Yet these designs have been used for many years to improve the strength of signals that from a dipole transmission perspective, are well out of reach.
You are having ago because you cannot understand how an antenna can "tell" that photons are being absorbed in the right direction. Sorry to break it to you, antennas aren't sentient beings. No-one asked them to "tell" when they know what is going on. All that was asked of yagi arranged antennas or otherwise, was to perform like ordinary pieces of metal, arranged like they are, in accordances with very ordinary known physics.
End of story Tom, stop being a Troll, and stop being a dick.
On top of this, in extraordinary circumstances, CIRCUMNAVIGATIONAL PROPAGATION, DOESN'T REQUIRE DIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS. That's right. The first time I ever experienced this, was with a Cushcraft R8. A thoroughly OMNIDIRECTIONAL antenna. It's more easily reproducible with directional propagators, but it doesn't require it.
End of story guys - there is nothing more to this argument. Physics wins, and thus round earth.