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  • mackwinston
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    1 year ago

    Related, is people holding handheld radios (walkie talkies) sideways, popularised by ‘cool guys on tv doing it’.

    It’s actaully very bad to do this - transmissions on handhelds are supposed to be vertically polarised (base station antennas are always vertical) and holding the radio sideways will transmit a horizontally polarized signal. This actually really matters - it can reduce by as much as 30dB the received signal strength at the other end (and -30dB is 1/1000th)