Hi Jim,
That particular pol switch is mast mounted and pending your antennas will allow you to switch polarization horizontal, vertical, circular right, circular left handed. As I said it depends on your antennas. The switch and the additional phassing cables and the additional power splitter are optimized for the X-Quad antennas WIMO is selling. Yes, they can also be used for cross yagis if they are mounted in horizontal/vertical position and you adjust the passing lines based on the plane offset. WIMO has the instructions posted as part of the link you provided (underneath the pol switch image. That will give you some ideas. They are written in German AND English. Yes, for EME switching polarization between horizontal and vertical linear polarization is preferrable, or polarization diverse switching in 45degrees increments which is getting really fancy and cannot be done with the WIMO setup as far as I know. If you need further information on this switch, I have one (not in use at this point) and you can contact me offline.
Hope this helps,
Stefan, VE4NSA
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Jim Bennett jlb3nn@bellsouth.net wrote:
Does anyone know anything about this remote control polarization switch? Can it be mounted on the antenna boom? Or do I need to run dual loops from the tower mounted switch to the antennas?
http://www.wimo.com/power-splitter-combiner_e.html
I am trying to do EME and it seems that my circular polarization switch might not be the best for EME. It is suggested to use Horizontal or Vertical. Not circular. Right?
Thanks for any input.
Jim, Ke4kol
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