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Old July 15th 15, 05:58 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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Default Do antennas radiate photons?

On 7/13/2015 10:59 AM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:45:43 +0200, "bilou" wrote:

"Jeff Liebermann" wrote in message
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Yep, antennas radiate photons.

+1
There is not any proof that RF behaves differently than light.
Things are already quite complicated without it :-)


One of my not so great ideas was to devise a contraption that would
let me "see" RF. It certainly would make troubleshooting RF devices
much easier. Essentially, it would be a human eye analog implimented
with RF components. According to theory, if it works for light, it
should also work for RF. At the time, I was working at about 1GHz.
Light is about 400 THz. So, all I need is an eyeball that's 400,000
times larger than the human eye. I'll give myself a -1 for the idea.


I think they have that. They are called radio telescope arrays.

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Rick