[SixClub] 6 meter vertical

Fri, 27 Feb 2004 16:07:49 -0800 (PST)

I found this out when I worked the September VHF
contest the same weekend I bought my Ranger 5054 in
Seattle,. I was up on Snoqualamie Pass - must be 3000'
or so. I connected the rig to my battery and a
hamstick I had. But I could barely work anyone - even
the guys in Seattle less than 50 miles away! I later
realized it was because my hamstick was VERTICAL and I
was using USB. I have the 25-watt Ranger BTW.

However, last weekend I was on a mountaintop trying a
sched with a friend out in the Valley East of
Vancouver BC. I didn't hear him, but I did work a guy
in Saltspring Island, about 50 miles away. This guy
was on an 817 with a Miracle Whip, vertical. I was
using a Tokyo Hypower HT - 2w, with a whip but I held
mine horizontal for USB. After he mentioned his
antenna, I asked if it was vertical. He said yes, so I
swung mine up vertical as well. The result was a very
significant DROP in his sig level - maybe 10db. I
swung it back horizontal and he came right back 5/9.
Any ideas why? Over only 50 miles, line of sight (I
was at 4000'), cross-polarization should have kiiled
us. Instead it was better. 

Anyone have an explanation?

73, Barry
VE7VIE/KD7IGX

--- Christopher Boone <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not in skip mode because of so much polarization
> skewing due to 
> reflections...but in local operations (out to a
> couple of hundred miles 
> ground wave or local ducting), it DOES make a
> difference...
> Want to work the local FM guys on simplex? Horiz
> won't cut it..
> want to work a guy on SSB 200miles away? a vertical
> won't do it if he is 
> on a horiz antenna..
> 
> Chris
> WB5ITT
> 
> RJ Mattson wrote:
> 
> > I thought antenna polarization was not a problem
> on skip modes?
> > bob...w2ami
> 
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