[VHFcontesting] Attenuation from polarity mismatch (Re: C6AFP Six Meter Beacon

[Mike (KA5CVH) Urich]

Here's a non-scientific antidote to all this.  A local ham ~25 miles
away tried to tell me there was no way we could work each other on SSB
since his antenna was horizontal and all I had at the time was a GP-9
vertical.  I said ... try ... it was not a problem.   I even had him
turn his yagi the other direction ... he could still hear me.  not as
well of course but could hear me.  I think that he must have scratched
his head for a month over this.

he too had fallen prey to tales from the spin doctor crypt.

-- 
Mike Urich KA5CVH
http://ka5cvh.com
PIO Harris County ARES
STX: (A)PIC Dist 1 & 14

100 watts and a wire.

"If serving is below you
Leadership is beyond you"