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Pointing a big antenna is not how it would work.

You don't need to point the antenna at anything; you can use multiple antennas that steer the beam ("beamforming") in a desired direction. Link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_antenna

Basically you can have a "phased array" of N antennas (2 counts as an array, but you can think of a line of say N=8 antennas) that delay their broadcasts relative to each other in such a way that the N signals interfere constructively along some directions and destructively along other directions. This is because, from far away,

  cos(angle_from_line_of_antenna_array) = const*propagation_delay_between_antennas


Ah, clever! Thanks for the link.




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