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

[Marshall-K5QE]

You cannot fix STUPID.....

When we had a lot of rovers out running around, we often used verticals 
for 6M.  The mag mount 5/8th wave 2M antennas work perfectly well on 6M, 
so we had a 3el beam up at 110ft that was vertically polarized.  What we 
found was than for rovers in under about 100 miles, the vertical was 
better.  After that, the 7el at 100ft was the best.  The closer they got 
the better the little vertical beam performed.

73 Marshall K5QE


On 2/6/2017 9:21 PM, Buddy Morgan via VHFcontesting wrote:
>   A few years ago, I heard this person, on 144.200. He sounded like a FM repeater type. Like the guy Mike worked, he was about 25 miles. He was running about 50 watts. I was running 100 watts, on my Omni eFactor horizontal loop. He was having trouble hearing me. So, I put my yagi on him and turned on my legal limit amp. He now could hear well enough to understand what I was saying. He was disappointed in SSB. FM worked a lot better. Seems that he was using a Japanese vertical, that had a 4:1 SWR, on 144.200. I told him that a horizontal antenna, that was resonant, at the low end of the band would make a huge difference. He didn't think it would make any difference. Further into the conversation, I found that he did not have the preamp, on his radio, turned on. He said that wouldn't make any difference, either. I told him, I had to go.
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> Buddy WB4OMG
> EL 98
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> 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.
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> he too had fallen prey to tales from the spin doctor crypt.
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