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

[Peter Laws]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Buddy Morgan via VHFcontesting
<vhfcontesting at contesting.com> wrote:

> Of course, I am horizontally polarized.


Undoubtedly, that makes a difference ... but how much?

Does anyone have a scholarly (or even semi-scholarly, e.g., QEX, QST)
citation for the amount of attenuation?  I've heard anywhere from 3 dB
to 30 dB (and WAGs going even higher).  3 to 30 dB doesn't seem like
much to a lot of hams because they don't understand dB, but that's
2x(ish)  to 1000x ...  so I'm thinking one of them is wrong ... and
since we all routinely hear signals of the other polarity I'm thinking
it's closer to 3 than 30 ...

Someone has surely done actual research on this.  So where is it?


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