[TowerTalk] Inverted Vee vs. Dipole QRN

Rick Karlquist richard at karlquist.com
Sun Nov 5 02:34:16 EST 2006


> I would agree that there's a lot of manmade noise about, it's the
> assertion that it's *predominantly vertically polarized* that I'm
> curious about.

Local manmade noise may start out randomly polarized.  However, only
the vertically polarized component can propagate by ground wave.
This is well known physics.  The horizontal component is rapidly
attenuated with distance.

Rick N6RK



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