[Ti] Airport base station orientation

[Robert Ameeti]

>On 31.3.2004 16:44, "Jason Tertadian" <haiku23 at mac.com> wrote:
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>> Actually, I remember reading somewhere once that a vertical mount is
>> actually better in some way.
>
>Airport base stations use different antennas.  The original graphite base
>station used the Lucent Card that has the antenna built into the card.   The
>next design, the snow base station, and then the one now, the extreme base
>station, use a dipole antenna that is built into the case.
>Horizontal mounting is known to better due to the fact that the antenna
>pattern for all the designs is more like a flat round pattern.

If the signal is not spherical, then the 'best' orientation would be different based on where the signal needs to go.
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