[eagle] Re: Another idea on phased array configuration

John B. Stephensen wrote:

Since the generated beam needs to cover the entire earth from a maxmum of 35,000 km in alttude, the beam can't be made very narrow. I don't think that all 36 or 43 elements ever need to be on at one time. Many could be held in reserve.

Where do you come up with this? What sort of analysis?

Matt