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Old March 12th 09, 07:19 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
AndyS AndyS is offline
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Default Definition of antenna receive gain?



Owen Duffy wrote:
Look up the Friis Transmission equation on Google.

Here is a little application for solving the Friis Transmission equation:
http://www.vk1od.net/software/fsc/ .



Andy asks:

The Friis equation at the above website states that the distance
exponent may be a number different than "2".

Can anyone here explain why a number other than "2" could be
used, and under what conditions ??

Thanks,

Andy W4OAH