"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message
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Robert J Carpenter wrote:

Very, very much not an urban setting, but West Virginia Public
Radio
was exclusively horizontally polarized at most, if not all, their
dozen mountain top transmitters. The chief emgineer contended it
worked better in the mountainous terrain. Their situation might
have
assumed a fixed transmitter power out, thus the circular would
result
in half the ERP (per polarization).

I think this was the case at the time when most listeners were at
home
with horizontal folded dipoles.

The chief engineer claimed that it worked better in his car as well.
YMMV.