Problem 433. jogging?

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@bmtran (Bryant Tran) on 2 Mar 2012

whoops, accidentally had 2 left feet...

@bmtran (Bryant Tran) on 2 Mar 2012

good problem, btw. this is one of the last places I thought I'd run into a beamforming problem, especially one that was put in such friendly terms :)

Rafael S.T. Vieira on 16 Jul 2020

Recommended: https://www.analog.com/en/analog-dialogue/articles/phased-array-antenna-patterns-part1.html

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