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- From: kthompso@donald.WichitaKS.NCR.COM (Ken Thompson)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Disc-cone antenna
- Message-ID: <63652@donald.WichitaKS.NCR.COM>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 15:34:24 GMT
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- pierson@empror.enet.dec.com (dave pierson) writes:
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- ) Also, the classic discone is vertically polarized, and most TV is
- ) horizontally polarised, so the discone should go on its "side". At
- ) which point it ceases being omnidirectional. And has to be reaimed for
- ) each channel.
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- Sorry,
- Tv and fm broadcasts are circular in polarization.
- Any antenna polarization will work.
- Antenne are put up horizontally because there is less man made noise that way.
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