Chris and group,
What an intriguing thought - building a village inside a photon.
It reminded me about the article on Toroidal Antennas that Jim M0BMU drrew
our attention to on 1st March. It contained diagrams showing the
phase-closed-loops which constitute photons.
Since fractional photons don't exist, I assume there is a minimum power
level below which nothing is radiated - in other words there is a lower
level of QRP which cannot be received by ANY receiver, no matter how well
endowed with antennas and low noise amplifiers - simply because it is less
than 1 photon.
I wonder how small it is ?
73
Hugh M0WYE
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Trayner" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: LF: QRO / QRP
Hi Rik,
interesting approach that QRP not only includes power (input, output, ERP
...) but also dimensions.
We meet something like that at work, where there are THz researchers as well
as those of us interested in (V)LF.
They look down their noses at it if there aren't twelve zeroes in the
frequency;
we look down our noses at it if you can't build a small village inside a
photon.
73,
Chris G4OKW
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Dr Chris Trayner
School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering,
The University of Leeds,
Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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