[MLB-WIRELESS] hops over water - reflective properties of water for microwaves...

[Toliman]

At 04:34 PM 30/05/2003, paul van den bergen wrote:
>Hi all.
>
>anyone have any idea how microwaves behave in reflection?  I know water is
>"solid" as far as water is concerned... but would a directional beam bounce
>off water? and how shallow would the beam need to be wrt the water surface -
>(never mind that the ocean is largely not flat - even at 12.5 cm
>wavelengths...)

my guess ? it would "bounce" as well as a car glancing against a brick wall.

and, much like that car, the signal would scatter in multiple directions, 
mostly forward in the original direction, but at a much lower velocity.

Toliman.


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