"Yuri Blanarovich" wrote in message
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Art, if you can't read or you don't know what you write, then your
"communicating" here is pointless.

You wrote and queried POLARITY and you "don't understand me" with
POLARIZATION. Elementary my dear Watson!

I have doubts that you really understand antenna polarization, pattern
forming, ground effects and reality of RF signals propagating and antenna
role in their generation and interception.

Yuri, K3BU.us



Sorry for the previous blank reply posting.

A polarization story, if I may. At Field Day a few years ago, I decided to
try a few 446 MHz calls to add to the fifty-some 2m QSOs I had logged. I
got bupkus for an hour's work. I tried a local repeater and got a similar
nothing, so I concluded my radio had quit. No, I had the yagi antenna
horizontal. I had been playing at home with UHF TV and I simply translated
the orientation of the TV yagis to my 70cm yagi. Dumb! Everything was fine
except for my being cross-polarized with the rest of the 70cm FM universe.

I understand that SSB'ers are horizontal on VHF/UHF; if I ever get an
allmode, I'll have to remember that.