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Originally Posted by peter_scott
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Fascinating... must admit, my experience on 50, 70 and 144MHz has been that horizontally-polarised signals give better distance-covering ability. Vertical polarisation makes sense for mobile [handheld walkie-talkie and whip-antenna-on-a-vehicle, working to a vertically-polarised repeater or base-station] - if only because omnidirectional horizontally-polarised antennas are practically difficult to engineer for handheld or vehicle applications.
Horizontal polarisation was used for UK Band-II FM broadcasting.... though from the 1870s there was a move towards slant polarisation so mobile/portable reception was better.