The maximum received power is the incident co-polarized power density times the effective aperture Ae of the receive antenna: This assumes that the receive antenna is co-polarized with the incide...The maximum received power is the incident co-polarized power density times the effective aperture Ae of the receive antenna: This assumes that the receive antenna is co-polarized with the incident electric field, and that the receiver is conjugate-matched to the antenna. A common misconception is that path loss is equal to the reduction in power density due to spreading along the path between antennas, and therefore this “spreading loss” increases with frequency.
The maximum received power is the incident co-polarized power density times the effective aperture Ae of the receive antenna: This assumes that the receive antenna is co-polarized with the incide...The maximum received power is the incident co-polarized power density times the effective aperture Ae of the receive antenna: This assumes that the receive antenna is co-polarized with the incident electric field, and that the receiver is conjugate-matched to the antenna. A common misconception is that path loss is equal to the reduction in power density due to spreading along the path between antennas, and therefore this “spreading loss” increases with frequency.
