[Elecraft] OT: 2m beam orientation

Mike Flowers mike.flowers at gmail.com
Thu Jun 20 22:20:49 EDT 2013


I have mine horizontally oriented for SSB and CW.  It's an old 10-element beam and seems to do OK for FM repeater use as well. 

-- Mike Flowers, K6MKF, NCDXC - "We do DX!"

On Jun 20, 2013, at 6:04 PM, kevinr <kevinr at coho.net> wrote:

> Traditionally it is vertical polarization for FM and horizontal for SSB and CW.
> 
> Kevin.  KD5ONS
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> On 6/20/2013 5:46 PM, Harlan wrote:
>> I have my ten element 2m antenna vertically polarized mainly for repeater op. Was wondering how other ops place their 2m beams.
>> 
>> Harlan
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