[TenTec] Even MORE on vertical antennas!

[Billy Cox]

Huh?

Once a signal leaves, and is reflected it is not longer
vertically or horizontally polarized .... speaking at HF.

Line of sight, may be different ... but what you are saying
makes little or no sense AFTER the wave has been
reflected. Ground wave, OK ... but not after a multi-hop.

If your statement was true ... then why don't the contest
stations use verticals for "rotating signals" ????????

Multiple antennas, at multiple heights allows options as
to arriving/departing wave angles ... that's what matters,
not polarization.

73 Billy AA4NU

> Faraday rotation causes radio signals to "rotate" from horizontally
polarized
> to vertical and back, more or less continuously. Particularly over a
> multi-hop path. Therefore it's not uncommon to find a station coming in
quite
> strongly on a vertical antenna and not be workable on a beam. Terman's
Radio
> Engineering makes that situation quite clear for those  interested. It
also
> makes it clear that those who omit a decent vertical from their antenna
> arrays are missing some easy Q's.