It seems to me that a live test of these theories and calculations would be easy to perform. In an open space, separate two radios with dipole antennas. Onone radio transmit and read the receive level on the other radiowhile turning one of the antennas to a variety of polarizations. Be careful to avoid ground effects and Fresnel Zones. Let us know the results. ;o) GL/73, Bob K8BL
From: Steve Kristoff skristof@etczone.net To: amsat bb amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Saturday, January 9, 2016 12:34 PM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Polarity
It makes sense (to me) that it follows a cosine function. So, if your antenna is horizontal and the signal is at 30 degrees above the horizontal, you should be getting about 87% of the signal, which figures out to a loss of about -.6dB. If the signal is coming in at 45 degrees, you're getting about 71% of the signal, for a loss of about -1.5 dB. If the signal is at 60 degrees above horizontal you'll get about 50% of the signal, which is the -3dB loss. At 80 degrees above horizontal, you'll get about 17% of the signal, which is a -7.6 dB loss I know that is not what the article says, but if you're going by cosines, which makes sense to me, those should be the numbers. (I think maybe)
Steve AI9IN
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Bruninga" bruninga@usna.edu To: "amsat bb" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2016 12:05 PM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Polarity
We all know that [matched polarity] = Zero db loss from cross
polarization.
And then in theory, the "Infinite loss" when cross polarized... [Pracically],it's more like 30 to 40 db or so [ or much less in the
presence of reflections]
Now does anyone know of a chart ... for every degree of something really
is?
Like 45 deg is 3 db down, 50 deg =? 55 deg =? etc.
The cosine table works for all angles.. The cosine of 45 degrees is 1/2 which is -3 dB etc...
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