| > But how do these jammers work? Pretend you're having a conversation. Now pretend you're having a conversation at a concert/club/any loud place. So like this[0] > so in theory putting your receiver in a metal box with the top removed solves the problem? You'd think so, but not actually. Think about it this way: you're trying to toss a ball into a cup (or box). Is it easier or harder if that cup has a wide mouth or a narrow one? Make it V shaped for easier visualization and we'd be talking about the angle of that cone. Obviously the wider one right? The extreme other end of this is like a carnival ball tossing game where the cup is just as big (or they cheat and its smaller) than the ball you're trying to throw in. Now pretend you're trying to make that shot from a moving car. You come from far away and drive right past it and you get more points in this game the more shots you score. That's analogous to what then satellite is doing. Remember it comes from over the horizon and then passes to the other horizon. You want to maximize your viewing angle because that gives the satellites more chances to make contact. This is more complicated because you need to kinda do this in parallel as you're handing off data collection to the next satellite coming through so the better viewing angle the more chances you have to smoothly negotiate that pass over. Then there's the whole issue that we're talking about waves instead of particles but I'll let someone else handle that. You can actually find some cool visualizations on the internet about these. See knife edge diffraction. [0] https://youtu.be/m-YSPHib-kg?t=89 |