At 06:51 11/15/2008, G Shaw wrote: > Assuming about 80 feet of run at VHF you have added >well over 3 db of loss, which of course means your system is going to be >deaf on rcv and way down on xmt
Glenn, I am confused. Us DX folks think 3db is about a factor of two in ERP, so that would be like turning a mobile down from 50w to 25w, hardly a world-shaking change. At least DXing, a few db can matter when you are on the borderline of making a contact, but for daily use? I would think there would be only a small change in coverage area. And folks who had solid signals before would still be clear and workable. What am I missing here? -- Dave Gomberg, San Francisco NE5EE gomberg1 at wcf dot com All addresses, phones, etc. at http://www.wcf.com/ham/info.html -----------------------------------------------------------------
