Hi I've done a modest amount of listening to signals via 144 MHz tropo on
Horizontal and Vertical antennas at the same time on different radios.
About all I can say with any certainty is that I could usually tell which
stations were using Horizontal or Vertical antennas by the relative signal
strengths. As a wild guess I'd put the typical loss due to polarization miss
match in the range of maybe 15 to 20 dB. I didn't make any effort to
calibrate the S meters of the radios in question.
Hope this is of some interest.
73
Mark S
VE7AFZ
Mark Spencer
Aligned Solutions Co.
mark@alignedsolutions.com
604 762 4099
> On Jan 29, 2017, at 10:12 AM, Peter Laws <plaws0@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Buddy Morgan via VHFcontesting
> <vhfcontesting@contesting.com> wrote:
>
>> Of course, I am horizontally polarized.
>
>
> Undoubtedly, that makes a difference ... but how much?
>
> Does anyone have a scholarly (or even semi-scholarly, e.g., QEX, QST)
> citation for the amount of attenuation? I've heard anywhere from 3 dB
> to 30 dB (and WAGs going even higher). 3 to 30 dB doesn't seem like
> much to a lot of hams because they don't understand dB, but that's
> 2x(ish) to 1000x ... so I'm thinking one of them is wrong ... and
> since we all routinely hear signals of the other polarity I'm thinking
> it's closer to 3 than 30 ...
>
> Someone has surely done actual research on this. So where is it?
>
>
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