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Missie
Junior Member
Username: Missie
Post Number: 24
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, August 05, 2007 - 10:54 am: | 
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what is the difference between vertical and horizontal and can you use ether to receive and transmit to ether? |
Carolinagold
Member
Username: Carolinagold
Post Number: 76
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, August 05, 2007 - 6:04 pm: |
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the difference between vertical and horizontal is vertical is up and down and horizontal lay's flat (such as beam antenna). yes you can use either one to transmit and recive to the other.
but horizontal antenna's are known to have better recive and transmit because you can turn them away from alot of the hash and trash.
JAMES
CAROLINAGOLD
865
CEF#416
CCRC#2
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N8fgb
Junior Member
Username: N8fgb
Post Number: 36
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, August 05, 2007 - 10:54 pm: |
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Vertical is best for mobile-mobile,mobile-base contacts.Horizontal picks up less manmade noise,and of course less noise from the more popular vertical antennas,which makes it better for longer distance.
Rich |
2ir473
Intermediate Member
Username: 2ir473
Post Number: 120
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Monday, August 06, 2007 - 9:15 am: |
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Generally speaking...
A vertical antenna will give you the most utility since most other stations will have their antenna mounted vertically.
If you try to talk to another station via groundwave (local), and you are horizontal and he is vertical, there may be a lot of loss between your stations. You might only see S-1 or S-2 on your S meter, but if you were both vertical, you might be S-9 or better to each other.
A horizontal antenna is a great choice for a second antenna, if you already have a vertical antenna. When you are working DX, and the signals are bouncing off the various layers of atmosphere, the "polarity" (the vertical or horizontal characteristics) changes and talking to a vertical from a horizontal antenna won't really matter, in terms of signal loss, like it does when working a local station.
And a horizontal antenna will often receive less noise, because much of the noise our radios receive is man-made, and most man-made noise has a 'vertical' polarization to it. This is real important when you are trying to work that DX signal that is down in the grass.
Paul
2IR473
CEF-218/ham #107
CDX8412
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Hotwire
Senior Member
Username: Hotwire
Post Number: 2358
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 07, 2007 - 10:52 am: |
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I have always wondered does it matter how high a horizontal beam antenna is? 36 feet high minimum at the feed point is what we want for an 11 meter vertical, but what about a horizontal 11 meter element? Seems to me it should'nt matter much if at all.
KEEP IT REAL!
Kenny
cef491(27.115lsb)
2sf491(27.555usb)
Indiana
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