"JGBOYLES" wrote in message
Hi Doc, You have 4 quadrants of 90 degrees, and a bi directional 180
degree
antenna. You would have to rotate the antenna 180 degrees to get 360
degree
coverage of the main lobes. If you only rotate 90 then there will be 90
degrees somewhere that will not get the benefit of the main lobe. Am I
wrong?
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Just to note that the net pattern of a real dipole near the ground is NOT
its classic, free-space form to begin with, and could vary as it is rotated
as a function of varying environmental effects.

It's probably more important to worry about the mins than the maxes, but no
doubt you won't exactly know in which directions any of them exist, anyway.

RF