Topband: Inverted L : what is the optimal vertical to horizontal ratio ???

Tom Rauch w8ji at contesting.com
Sun Feb 2 06:52:56 EST 2003


> Anyone who knows what vertical to horizontal ratio would be optimal
here???

You really never get both polarizations. Any antenna that does not
specifically transmit a circular time-rotating wave transmits a single
polarization in any given direction.

You see that on Eznec as a mix of two polarizations, because they are
showing only H and V component, but is actually is a SINGLE tilted wave with
a NULL 90  degrees from the polarization peak.

In any event, every time I've tested it from here in Georgia or up in Ohio,
anything beyond a few hundred miles  the vertical almost always wins by a
large margin.

Only at sunrise does a low horizontal become competitive.

73 Tom



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