For Satellite work I have personally found that the elements of a beam like the Elk or Arrow need to be oriented to the plane of the Sats track through the sky. Ultimately, you want to orient the antenna so that you have maximum received signal strength (and/or audio). I suggested in an earlier email that horizontal polarization wouldn't work very well for the sats (it doesn't for me). However, a number of "experts" jumped on me an said that was incorrect. YMMV

Jeff Moore -- KE7ACY

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Kevin Deane summit496@live.com wrote:

I have been trying out the Elk and have a question on polerization. I have been using a Diamond vertically, does the Elk matter vertical or horizontal? I just saw a post and the gentleman said he was using it horizontaly... It definatly is not as good as my brothers Diamond, but was wondering if I was killin any signal strength?

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