The other folks in this thread suggest the polarization issues are not
too big a deal in the 6M band. Perhaps. One thing is for sure... your
high water mark in complexity need not exceed your dual Yagi with both
feeds ending up in your station where you can then select or combine
with arm chair comfort. That kind of flexibility would be cool.
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During the great solar cycle of the late 1950's a VE3 neighbour of mine
observed that on East - West 6m F2 paths a vertically polarized antenna
often provided better copy than a horizontal antenna, while a horizontal
antenna was always better on North - South paths. I suspect that one reason
might be that the East - West paths tend more or less to follow lines of
equal geomagnetic latitude, perhaps in ducts, while the North - South paths
cross these lines and signals 'hop'. It would be interesting to be able to
select vertical or horizontal or circular polarization from the comfort of
the shack not only when working F2 paths but also when working long haul
auroral Es, a case where the polarization of an arriving signal might be
changing a fair amount - a speculation.
73,
Geoff
GM4ESD
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