I just posted about having a Honda home gen.
Interesting to note what 80m and 20m sounds like when there is a
commercial power outage: normal S5-S6 noise floor drops to S2 (even
when I run my Honda and the "rest of the world" is dark). Years ago
(1980's) I lived off the grid in a little cabin and 80m noise floor
was S0; boy could I hear and work them! Later (1979) the utility ran
wires into my area and noise rose to S3-S4 (those were pre-wifi; now
it would be higher). This was a town of 150 people 50-miles from the
nearest other town.
73, Ed - KL7UW
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Jim Brown wrote:
My goals are to be able to work QRP stations and home stations with
lousy antennas. To do that, you've gotta be nutso about killing RX
noise. Do the math -- the difference between S3 and S6 is 15-18 dB,
depending on whose definition of an S-unit you accept. 15 dB is a 32x
power difference, 18 dB is 64x. 15 dB more noise makes a 100W signal
sound like a 3W signal.
73, Ed - KL7UW
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