[MLB-WIRELESS] Antenna Overlap

[Michael Borthwick]

Jason Brice wrote:

>  One of the things im not really clear on with respect to Antennas and
> the whole RF thing;If i have a low gain omni with an effective range
> of say... 1km and i have a high gain dish (enough to include the omni
> in the signal range) some 15km away pointed at the omni, i understand
> that the omni can pick up the radiated signal from the dish, but is
> the dish able to pick up signal from the omni at that range? and if so
> why is that? :)

That isn't so. Antennas adhere to the law of reciprocity.
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