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KB2VXA > RIGS 16.07.03 00:35l 44 Lines 1701 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Why not Diana Riggs?
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Hello Neil ZL1ANM and readers,
So, whu not Diana Riggs? Makes about as much sense as this cross
polarization loss moth.
To begin with, one most certainly cannot contact a distant station with
an HT regardless of mode or polarization. That alone makes all other
points moot, but let's have a look anyway.
Not having a horizontal 2M antenna I must use vertical polarization with
SSB. While polarization may be important when pulling that really weak
one out of the mud, for most work I have no problems with vertical.
Besides, you would be surprised at the number of stations I work also
using vertical. In one instance while working a station at considerable
distance I asked him to switch to his vertical omni and there was marked
improvement, so it's agreed that there IS cross polarization loss even if
I don't care to measure it.
As for HTs, just who holds one upright in the first place? I almost never
see anyone actually do it, most hod them at a 45 degree angle and some
completely horizontal and they have no trouble communicating with fixed
stations or another HT held any which way.
FYI, some HTs I have seen are equipped with full quarter wave, half wave
and even colinear antennas, usually telescoping for easy packing away.
Well, there's another nicad moth chewing away, this one munching on the
tranceiver body itself working it's way up to the rubber duckie.
73 de Warren, KB2VXA@WT3V.#CNJ.NJ.USA.NOAM
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