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    ANTENNAS

    Dec 01, 2019 3 minutes
    BY KENT BRITAIN, WA5VJB

    I have covered polarization before, but interesting ideas about polarization keep cropping up and I want to set things straight.

    Some Basics

    A horizontal antenna talks to a horizontal antenna. A vertical antenna talks to a vertical antenna. But if you have a vertical antenna on one end and a horizontal antenna on the other end, you see a reduction in signal strength of 3 to 4 Sunits, or

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