[time-nuts] What's "dBic" on GPS antenna gain figures?
Marco IK1ODO -2
ik1odo at spin-it.com
Thu Nov 3 14:58:20 UTC 2011
At 15:13 03-11-11, you wrote:
>So its just 'dB' relative to a circular polarised isotropic radiator
>- never knew that before!
Correct. It is the standard way to declare the gain of a circularly
polarized antenna when receiving or transmitting circularly polarized
waves, as "dBi" is valid only for linearly polarized ones.
73 - Marco IK1ODO
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