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Re: Tracking a radio signal

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Originally Posted by Don Rotolo View Post
I'm doubtful that adding antennas will help accuracy or precision, instead it may just add complexity for no performance gain.
It took me quite a while to take the mental leap to where adding antennae help. I was stuck on the mechanical analogy of having an over constrained system: Having more constraints just seemed redundant. The way I got there was imagining a probability beam coming from each antenna and over-lapping their fields, and comparing the process to over-sampling. Each antenna gives a slightly different piece of the puzzle.

It helped that my intern cube-neighbor / lunch partner really knew what he was talking about