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"Wes Stewart" wrote:
I don't know of anyone who is using true circular polarization (at VHF) even though their antennas are capable of generating it. ________________ Most FM broadcast stations in the US use some form of dual polarization, which they think of as "circular" but usually is not due to differing H&V pattern distortions from the mounting structure supporting their antennas. Paper 6 at http://rfry.org discusses this in the form of NEC-2 studies. In some cases, several FM stations all use a common antenna at a master FM site. An array of "cavity-backed radiators"* used in these cases can provide a c-pol axial ratio of 2dB or less for all polarization planes. Antennas of this design are used as master FM antennas in Houston, Dallas and St Louis, where they radiate approximately eight FM stations of 100kW ERP each. Sears Tower in Chicago has a number of them installed in a vertical stack for use by individual FM stations. *crossed, wideband dipoles in phase quadrature, installed in a circular, wire mesh cavity about 1/4-wave deep and less than a wavelength in diameter and arrayed in groups of three or four around a triangular or square cross-section tower. Several levels (often 8 or 10) are used to provide elevation gain for the array. RF |
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