That works pretty good until the other guy is also at 45 to the world
and 90 degrees to you!

.... or is using a standard horizontal antenna, but happens to be
located in the plane of your antenna. In this situation, he will
"see" only the component of your antenna's radiation pattern - he'll
be in a deep null for any horizontal radiation and may not hear you at
all.

Building an antenna which is omnidirectional, and which also has
substantially equal horizontally- and vertically-polarized signal
components over the full omni donut, is possible (commercial FM
services do it) but seems to be tricky, expensive, and prone to being
narrow-band.

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Dave Platt AE6EO
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