On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 08:10 -0700, juergen wrote: > However from a communications effectiveness point of 20 watts is a > much more realistic power level, especially for SSB QSO's.
The difference between 10 and 20 watts is only 3 dB, half an S-unit. Compared to the 20-30 dB of QSB you often find on the HF bands, you would hardly even notice such a small difference. I think it is quite rare that 3 dB would be the difference between making a contact or not. Alan N1AL ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
