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Old August 11th 09, 06:30 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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Default Circular versus linear polarization

You need to read up on it. It does have it's uses and I know hams that use
it. Usually by Satellite guys that talk to mobiles too. It gets used by
quite a few commercial broadcast FM stations. The theory is that a mobile
antenna will hear either the main path or reflected path but to a lesser
extent, both so multi-path distortion is minimized. Typically the
reflection cause a reversal of polarization. There is no substitute for
talking to the far station in whatever polarity is agreed on.