it's a sad State of Affairs...

Im sure you realize, there is significant signal loss when the polarisation of two antennas do not match? Something like 20-30db iirc(or more, depending). So a 200w radio, could only be yielding a watt or 2 on the recieving end due to signal rejection. Has nothin to do with the radio..

 

That's weird, it sounds like there is more to the story.

I use a dipole, I talk to people who are using verticals, why would it pathetic when we can hear each other?

 

I suspect he must have a terrible mismatch and is burning up most of that power in the tuner.

 

Sure seems like an awful lot of power for a complete P**s poor performance.

 

Hi Ridgeline! Out of curiosity, are you doing your cross-polarization on local contacts or skip/DX? As I understand it, communications via ionospheric propagation doesn't depend as much on having matching polarity between two stations as do local contacts because skip or ionospheric communications may see the polarization of a signal twisted and turned any which way. For local contacts, it can be an important matter.

 

sinkoles are worse

 

Same concept when people run poor 3-4 ft antennas and then "need" an amp to talk past 5 miles.

Meanwhile the guy running a nice Sirio performer talks 10 miles on 4 watts