How times change. At one time 5 or 10 watts was pretty typical on 6, 2 and 1-1/4 meters unless you were one of the rare fellows trying for EME. And we were running AM phone to boot!
My first 2 meter rig (homebrew of course) ran less than 1 watt. It was not uncommon to work 50 or 100 miles with that power into a simple ground plane antenna. Of course, one of the big attractions was that gain antennas were physically rather small. Ron AC7AC ______________________________________________________________ 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
