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Originally Posted by SoCalRVer
Can rotating the antenna improve signal?
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Only if it's not pointing straight up (or straight down). If it is neither straight up nor straight down, then rotating it so it points straight up or down will improve the signal into other stations' vertically polarized antennas.
Not having it straight up or down will reduce the received signal strength (for
each of you) by the square of the cosine of the angle by which it deviates from being parallel to the other guy's antenna. If the "other guy" is a repeater, his antenna almost always points straight up.
Ummm -- perhaps you meant rotating it about a
vertical axis. No, that won't do squat.