On Fri,12/30/2016 10:27 AM, Dean L wrote:
500w 》1500 w -----It's less than an S-unit increase in signal
Anyone who has tried to work a station who doesn't hear well because of a high noise level, or with a poor signal path, knows that even 1 or 2 dB can be the difference between making a QSO or not. I have experienced this MANY times. On 160M, the band is often full from 1,800 to above 1,900 kHz during contests, and most amps need to be re-tuned to get full output when moving from one end to the other. If I got lazy and failed to do that, my 1.5 kW amp might be down to 1 kW or so, That's less than 2dB, but there have been times when re-tuning would get the other station to hear me when he hadn't responded to multiple calls.
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