[HN Gopher] Sci-fi inspired antenna adjusts to signal needs
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       Sci-fi inspired antenna adjusts to signal needs
        
       Author : rbanffy
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2024-12-16 13:36 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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       | xhkkffbf wrote:
       | Very clever. I hope there aren't too many engineering issues.
        
       | ethanwillis wrote:
       | Would be interesting to use in electronic warfare scenarios.
        
       | Scene_Cast2 wrote:
       | A different idea based on time-varying antennas, but I've always
       | wondered about the interesting technical challenges behind
       | building a phased array antenna from a bunch of flying drones.
        
         | evoke4908 wrote:
         | Your main challenge will probably be measuring the distance
         | between neighboring drones as accurately as possible. AIUI you
         | could recover signal from unevenly spaced receptors IFF you
         | know precisely where each receptor is.
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         | After that it's just a standard computational problem which is
         | (IMO) far less interesting.
        
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