Bob says "Just wondering if anyone has a vertical beam. A horizontal beam will be useless for direction finding. All it will do is point to whatever is reflecting the energy into the strongest horizontal component..."
That is only true when receiving the signal via direct line of sight propagation.
Once the signal is over the horizon, and is using the ionosphere to propagate the signal, the reflected signal can and does come back down at any polarization.
Matter of fact in minutes it can "Rotate" from vertical to horizontal and anywhere in between. or even faster rotation. QSB is mostly caused by this polarity rotation of the signal.
Joe WB9SBD
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On 2/15/2012 11:18 PM, Bob Bruninga wrote:
Just wondering if anyone has a vertical beam.
A horizontal beam will be useless for direction finding. All it will do is point to whatever is reflecting the energy into the strongest horizontal component...