You are talking about the two satellites I regularly access using a handheld radio at about 2.5W and either an Arrow dual-band antenna or simply a longer duck.
In my experiences, orienting the Arrow 90 degrees in either direction gives no discernable improvement on the RX signal: It's clear and wonderful no matter how I twist the Arrow.
Do the concepts os LHCP and RHCP come into play when you are trying to access lower elevation passes? AO-51 and SO-50 are so darned easy to hit with minimal equipment...and there is certainly NO "large difference between using RHCP and LHCP when listening to the downlink" as mentioned.
Clint Bradford, K6LCS 909-2421-7666
On Jan 2, 2008, at 11:14 AM, [email protected] wrote:
...there can be a large difference between using RHCP and LHCP when listening to the downlink. That is one of the resons for at lot of us to have the possibility to switch between RHCP and LHCP...