What are some different antenna types?
Here are several of the more popular styles: • Vertical – basically a pole sticking straight up. They are omnidirectional, meaning they transmit/receive equally well in all directions. Magnet-mount verticals are often used on cars. HT’s have a built-in vertical antenna, and base stations often include a vertical installed high on a pole or tower. • Vertical (or horizontal) Beam – also called a Yagi antenna • they are directional antennas (pointed in a particular compass direction; usually parallel to the ground). You can transmit/receive more power/gain in one direction, and less from other directions, compared to omnidirectional antennas. • they are made of one long piece with many short pieces running perpendicularly across the long piece (the short pieces point horizontally or vertically depending on which type it is; a horizontal beam is a vertical beam “on its side”) • Rule of Thumb – Horizontal for Single Sideband, Vertical for everything else. If one party is mismatched from the
