dennis wrote:
Remember that the antenna is horizontally polarized. If you get good
results then leave it be. If you want better reception then turn the
antenna 90 degrees for vertical polarization which is what all commercial
vhf and up communications is.

I'm not so sure it's horizontally polarized for shortwave!

(in any case the polarization of shortwave signals tends to be rather
indeterminate after bouncing around in the ionosphere)
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Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com