[TowerTalk] Why horizontally polarized antennas?

[Kelly Johnson]

I've always thought this as well, but others have claimed this is not
true.  Can anyone explain why this is the case?

Yes, my anecdotal evidence supports this.  I've done side-by-side
comparisons of a 40m vertical dipole against a horizontal dipole and
always found QRN to be higher on the vertical.  I just don't
understand why this is the case.

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Roger (K8RI) <K8RI-on-TowerTalk at tm.net> wrote:
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> On 7/2/2010 12:51 PM, Kelly Johnson wrote:
>> A co-worker asked me today why hams use horizontally polarized yagi's
>> instead of vertically polarized.  Am I correct that it has to do with
>> ground reflection gain?
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> All these answers and not one mentioned that on low bands, at least the
> QRN is predominately vertically polarized and using a horizontally
> polarized antenna means listening to less QRN although at times it seems
> difficult to believe when operating 75 or 40 in the summer.
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> 73
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> Roger (K8RI)
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