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 We'll talk about the effects of scattering on communications in more detail later because we need to see a few more basics first.  But for now, we'll just say that a radio signal received through scattering will generally be weak, and suffer from rapid flutter or hollow sounding distortion.
-It'll be weak because only a small portion of the energy reaches you (think of how much weaker the scattered light from the laser beam is compared to the what reaches the wall directly).  And it'll be distorted because your antenna will be receiving the signal from multiple directions (radio wave-paths) at once (think of how you can see the green laser scattered by the mist as an extended line, instead of a single point).  As we'll next, when a signal splits and takes different path (of different lengths), they recombined with a sort of "echo" can cause distortion.
+It'll be weak because only a small portion of the energy reaches you (think of how much weaker the scattered light from the laser beam is compared to the what reaches the wall directly).  And it'll be distorted because your antenna will be receiving the signal from multiple directions (radio wave-paths) at once (think of how you can see the green laser scattered by the mist as an extended line, instead of a single point).  As we'll next, when a signal splits and takes different path (of different lengths), they recombined with a sort of "echo" that can cause distortion.