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Art wrote:
"I believe that most hams recognise that a vertical polarised antenna is not the best type to use when communicating over ground with horizontally polarised antennas and I suspect that even CBers are aware of that too." Crosspolarization creates an extreme loss if the ionosphere isn`t in the path constantly mixing the polarization. For several years I worked in what was then the world`s largest shortwave broadcasting plant. All our antennas for many bands and target areas were horizontally polarized. I`ve visited many commercial shortwave plants and it`s the same story. Horizontal polarization predominates. Our antennas were designed for operation over 1-hop or 2-hop paths. They could be received with any piece of wire in any attitude but would likely work best with a rhombic or curtain that exactly matched the transmitting antenna but on the receiving end of the path. Those worked very well indeed on the program relay circuits. C.B. is supposed to be a line-of-sight service. As mobile stations which may at any moment be located on any azimuth are involved, vertical antennas which don`t discriminate against any azimuth are likely the best choice for base and mobile stations which work together. Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI |
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