"The polarization does not matter to radiation pattern. " This isn't the case for most antennas we use which launch an electromagnetic wave by generating an electric field. Ground characteristics affect the pattern of a vertically polarized wave much more than they affect a horizontally polarized wave for these types of antennas. The mag loop however, as I understand it, launches an EM wave by generating a magnetic field. Do the ground characteristics not affect the pattern of a magnetic field the way they do an electric field? If they do have the same affect, then the above statement isn't true.
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