We think that antenna's going to be just fine".
The Kymeta antenna's simplicity and size (it's about the size of a large pizza) makes it possible to include the technology on vehicles where size and weight are important.
Sigi Moeslinger, Antenna's other founder, added: "It can also be a great coffee table".
He pointed to a stain halfway up the antenna's base, the watermark from the flooding.
Focusing the beams increases their signal strength, and using large numbers of them greatly increases the antenna's traffic capacity.
The antenna's computer alters the beam's direction by changing the pattern that joins the signals into the final beam.
Many decorate their phones with small, budlike lights at the antenna's tips, which flash bright red or blue or white when the phone is in use.
An antenna's ability to increase a Wi-Fi signal's strength is called its gain, and is measured on a logarithmic scale, in decibels.
So it is not surprising that as the first boxes of the new iPhone 4 landed in the hands of the earliest adopters late Wednesday, the antenna's reception quickly became an Internet obsession.
In spite of some nifty technology that allows TracVision owners to watch Oprah while barreling down the highway, broadcasts are thwarted if the antenna's view of the southern sky is obstructed, blocking the signals from DirecTV's satellites.
Satellites broadcast with far lower power than earthbound television stations, and if the antenna's base -- your vehicle -- is turning and jouncing around, it has to be constantly re-aimed to stay on target.
