Thread: The catenary effect
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Old October 18th 14, 08:44 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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Default The catenary effect
"Ralph Mowery" wrote in news:kI-
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I would think that in real life things would fall off

I'd be inclined to have stopped that sentence right there. It looks
awesome, but wouldn't this be like some of the early attempts at telescope
design? In the end people quit trying for really long ones, they found that
accurate forms for long range detection were more easily built in
surprisingly compact designs, most likely because that way they could control
the precision much more easily. Very different forms, sure, but still
directed at distant photon sources, so essentially similar I imagine.. Size
will change with wavelength, but I'm thinking the proportions for accuracy
and good yield might not, so much.
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