Re: Satellite Radio

[David Moisan <dmoisan@shore.net>]

At 12:56 PM 3/16/98 +0000, you wrote:
I
>think there may be some advances in receiving antennas and receivers that
>might make the dish unnecessary. I don't follow this area of electrical
>engineering, so I don't know this to be the case, I just think it might be.

All of the prototype digital radio systems I have seen use a "patch"
antenna.   
While most people think of a satellite antenna as that big (or small) dish,
it is *not* necessarily required.

Dave

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