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Was at a field day thing this past weekend. I wasn't there when they
set everything up. There were 3 antennas in use. One very clearly
was a Yagi. One of the others very clearly was a "vertical" and the
other one was like a wire running the length of the parking lot and
was up about as high as the building - then it had a middle wire
running in to the shack with the radio. I was told that was a
horizontal antenna. Isn't there more specific names for vertical and
horizontal antennas than just vertical and horizontal??


The terms vertical and horizontal refer to the polarization of the
electric field the antenna operates on not the type. A Yagi antenna can
be vertically or horizontally polarized for example.

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Telamon
Ventura, California