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Old March 11th 09, 02:25 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Richard Fry Richard Fry is offline
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Default Polarization Loss?

On Mar 10, 5:26*pm, Clifford Heath wrote:
Bob Bob wrote:
Be aware that in a reflective/multipath environment you get a
polarization reversal.


Interesting thought. That means that with two antennas,
one clockwise and one ccw, you could adaptively mix the
two signals to cancel the 1st reflections.


A c-pol receive antenna having the same rotation sense as a direct-
path, c-pol radiated wave will reject reflections/re-reflections of it
from any odd number of surfaces. The first-surface source usually is
the dominant source of reflections.

However if the rotation sense of a c-pol receive antenna is opposite
that of the transmit antenna, then it will reject the direct path
signals and receive only those reflections of it.

RF