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What is the radio horizon?

  • A.The distance beyond which no signal of any kind can be received
  • B.The angle above the horizontal at which the antenna's beam is aimed
  • C.The boundary between the ground wave and the sky wave service areas
  • D.The distance at which the ray just grazes the earth's surface

Answer: D

The radio horizon is where the straight or refracted ray from the antenna becomes tangent to the earth, and it is slightly further than the optical horizon because of atmospheric refraction. Beyond it, diffraction and tropospheric scatter provide weaker signals rather than none at all. It is a geometric limit rather than an antenna setting or a service boundary. Distinguishing a geometric horizon from an absolute limit of reception prevents overconfident coverage predictions.

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