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Re:iPhone 7 by ghshephard on Thursday September 08, 2016 @10:15AM (#12453178)
If you mean power, then talk about power, not unidirectional/omnidirectional, unless there is some aspect of the unidirectional emission that you believe, or have evidence to suggest is different from an omnidirectional emission.

I have Omnidirectional antenna's that put out power at about 46 dB, and directional antennas that do likewise at -24 dB.

Re:iPhone 7 by tomhoward on Thursday September 08, 2016 @09:38PM (#12459090)
Sure, that's a good clarification.

You could have replied to that effect to begin. HN is a better place when people are charitable in their interpretations of comments and kind in their replies.

Re:iPhone 7 by ghshephard on Thursday September 08, 2016 @10:23PM (#12459277)
Sure - I was genuinely curious. I'm not an RF engineer, and haven't really studied this topic, other than to know my company has Omnidirectional and directional antennas. I was curious as to whether there might be some sort of phase-alignment or other type of behavior that might be happening with the directional antennas, unrelated to the power/duty cycle. My question with regards to education was truly genuine.
Re:iPhone 7 by tomhoward on Friday September 09, 2016 @03:12AM (#12460168)
It was too, I'm so sorry.

I can get a little indignant (I'm working on it, I really am), over the tendency of some HN commenters to exhibit belligerent skepticism in response to people sharing sincerely-considered views or insights regarding yet-to-be-settled matters in health/medicine/science.

In that state, I mistook your comment as being sarcastic, which I now realise it wasn't. Please accept my sincere apologies.