Re: Topband: Polarisation coupling effects at MF??

["Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>]

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:34:07 -0500, Bill Tippett wrote:

>Theoretically a dipole up 1/2 wavelength should
>be 6-8 dB stronger than a vertical, but many have found just
>the opposite is true (vertical 6-10 dB stronger). 

I'm convinced that the reason verticals play so much better on 160 
than their vertical and horizontal patterns suggests is related to 
the way vertically and horizontally waves propagate on 160. 

73,

Jim K9YC



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