It should be set so the waves go in the direction you want them to go. One would think that the waves emanate from the "pole" because that is what the pictures always show
|)))) but in reality the pole is only one connection point for the creation of the airborn electrical wave. The "ground plane" is the other connection point.
So the waves emanate out from the pole and the ground plane.
Google images of ground planes
Fixed: When you see all the VHF and UHF recievers being used in theatres and DJs and all, for some reason unknown to me , they always use the
\ / shape, I assume that helps recieve as the signals bounce around so when "line of sight" gets blocked, it still gets there.
))) \__/ ((( Or maybe it works with the ground plane in some way?
Almost always when you're trying to get omni-directionality
(((|))) they always go with straight up. Whenever testing any of this stuff, I have found that the most consistant results for omni-directional and movement is straight up. If you have a back ground plane that changes it.
I don't know. I thought I had an epiphany, when I look at a Tesla or large visable electrical output, radio waves in a sence are very tiny powered higher frequencey similarities. I could see the tesla. Tesla pic of the idea
For more epiphanies, it took me days before the light bulb went off that Wi-Fi adapters are not just receivers, they are a transmitter/reciever like the router is.