At 12:33 PM 9/20/2002, Casey Halverson wrote: >todd, keep in mind the entire downtown seattle area is filled with passive >repeaters... > >they are big, large, evenly placed object and tend to create lots of >reflections....
Then, theoretically, if all those 2D reflectors were inputted into a database by location and what direction they point, theoretically a query interface might enable a visitor to input two geographic coordinates and ask whether there is a reflector already available. In fact, anywhere you have an inside corner, that is, two surfaces forming a 90 degree angle it could serve quite a large number of two way paths... assuming, these surfaces are efficient reflectors... I guess it would be a lot easier to visit the two sites with parabolic antennas with servo-controlled rotors, coordinated with each other to search for available reflection paths. I suppose, you might have to rotate many revolutions, pointing the antennas to intersect at theoretical locations at various outward distances, (yawn. ... back to work now), TOdd -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
