A new breakthrough has been made in antenna development. A new quantum antenna capable of operating on the Terahertz spectrum.
Best part of this discovery is that it doesn’t require cooling to stabilise it, a la ‘traditional’ quantum computing cooling. Rather it is able to remain stable and function at room temperature.
“it holds immense potential for applications that include inspecting packages without harmful X-rays, superspeed 6G communication, and spectroscopy and imaging of organic compounds”
This sounds much better for chasers, Rydberg atoms are too big to pack easily for SOTA. I also hear tuning up the teraherz-to-optical transverters for weak signal work are a real bear!
Considering the distance record is around 65m at 30Thz, it begs the question; what is the shortest straight line distance between 2 activation zone edges?
Knowing this would then give a theoretical maximum operating frequency for summit to summit contacts based on current distance records. Although, operating from high altitudes may reduce atmospheric absorption to some degree.
Well that question builds on the very important research ( ) done earlier this year on which was the longest S2S QSO you can have in SOTA, EA7->Zl1. Actually it was quite interesting seeing how to optimise the program using different programming languages and parallelising the code to run on 40 CPUs at once.
Anyway, Alex @GM5ALX worked out the shortest S2S and it’s 290m which could be in 30THz range as optimisation improves.
) done earlier this year on which was the longest S2S QSO you can have in SOTA, EA7->Zl1. Actually it was quite interesting seeing how to optimise the program using different programming languages and parallelising the code to run on 40 CPUs at once.