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The fact that it's relative to an isotropic radiator is just how all gains are measured.

In this case I think you're saying the paper itself should not have been using isotropic coordinates.

But the US and China are mostly isotropic* markets, it's easier to control them than all the different European countries.

It assumes an isotropic antenna with an effective area that is dependent on lambda.

If the papers intent was to consider what happens to world lines as they cross the event horizon the paper should not have used isotropic coordinates.

It explicitly accounts for the gain of each antenna, in the direction of the link, relative to an isotropic radiator.

> - Ignoring the 3D nature of antenna placement ...A real antenna won't be an isotropic radiator, either.

The only isotropic way to get a red sky around the Sun is to have the horizon be a sort of red band of sky, but that would have to "wash over" the sky as we crossed over it.

I think you're getting at something I agree with, but you're also saying some things I don't think are quite right...Firstly I don't know what you mean by the Friis equation "assumes an isotropic antenna".

I tend to play on isotropic even when playing face-to-face games because it's 2x faster normally, and there are some pathological cases where it's over an order of magnitude faster.

The interesting factor of the Dutch famine in 1944 was that it occurred in one region of a fairly isotropic 'developed' country, in a society where masses of scientific and psychological measurements could be conducted for decades afterwards.