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Two words, triple beat. Hope your also designing the system for side lobe suppression.
Coaxial is used because it doesn't allow leakage of the transmitted signal, if it wasn't shielded, there would be stray RF all over.
Fiber is used in data because its light pulses, it can't be used properly for a transmission line.
Even the best coax cables leak a bit of signal
ummm..... optical fible is used for transmission lines, often VERY long ones up and down countries and across oceans
you do know you can send data via radio dont you?
they transmit light rather than an electrical current
they are just a different style of transmission line
Dave
I have never seen fiber optics used in a antenna system used for transmitting and receiving, I would like to see that.......
I would guess that they are taking a analog signal and converting it to a low voltage digital signal. Then returning it to the analog signal again?
I can't see fiber being able to handle any type of RF signal because of its material. The reason I felt this way was because fiberglass or glass for that matter is mostly used as a non conductive material.
well it can be analog or digital doesnt matter ... in the example I gave in the last post
about the cellular signal, then its digital
Thats true, and pretty obvious, but I dont think the OP realised that
the way his question was worded in both forums indicated that he expected just to
screw the fibre under the antenna terminals ??? maybe??
Dave