radio reflector meaning
- Noun: radio reflector
- Astronomical telescope that picks up electromagnetic radiations in the radio-frequency range from extraterrestrial sources
- radio telescope
Derived forms: radio reflectors
Type of: astronomical telescope
- Astronomical telescope that picks up electromagnetic radiations in the radio-frequency range from extraterrestrial sources
Examples
- Dr . Donald B . Campbell, the director of the upgrade, escorted guests to the interior of an aluminum dome suspended by cables hundreds of feet above the ground, containing two gigantic radar and radio reflectors.
- If there is a radio reflector nearby ( potentially anything sizeable and metal ) you may get a pattern where the reflection cancels out the unreflected signal at one point, but a few metres away doesn't cancel it.
- The largest individual radio telescope of any kind is the RATAN-600 located near Nizhny Arkhyz, Russia, which consists of a 576-meter circle of rectangular radio reflectors, each of which can be pointed towards a central conical receiver.
- A disadvantage of the original Arecibo system was that a spherical reflector, whether it is an optical mirror or the perforated metal sheeting covering a radio reflector like that of Arecibo's dish, cannot bring rays to focus at a single point.
- E . g . in the UK some amateur radio licence holders are allowed to transmit using ( 33 dBw ) 2 . 0 kW for experiments entailing using the moon as a passive radio reflector ( known as Earth-Moon-Earth communication ) ( EME ).
