On Friday 16 November 2007 09:39, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: > On-air tests are meaningless to evaluate the effect > since a few milliwatts can make it around the world at times and result in > a nice signal report on almost any frequency in the HF spectrum. It's easy > to throw away 50%, 75% or even more of the transmitter's power in losses > and be completely unable to detect it by evaluating how easy or hard it is > to make on-air contacts.
Shhh... Don't tell those QRO stations that they are really running QRP. :-) -- Darrell Bellerive Amateur Radio Stations VA7TO and VE7CLA Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com