[MLB-WIRELESS] RE: Re[2]: [MOB-WIRELESS] Dirty big dish...

[Tony Langdon, VK3JED]

At 09:33 PM 20/06/2002 +1000, you wrote:


>I should also point out that its not gain that's important to the receiver.
>Gain is only going to affect the signal strength, which is fairly
>irrelevant. What we need is signal to noise ratio and having a huge gain
>receive antenna wont help that  :(

Yes it will in most cases... Noise is often dictated by the input stage of 
the receiver at 2.4 GHz...  Exception:  heavily populated areas, but then 
again, a gain antenna will help keep the crud down.

73 de Tony, VK3JED
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