At 08:13 AM 11/15/08, you wrote: >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
This might be of interest.... <http://www.repeater-builder.com/antenna/3db.html> Mike WA6ILQ
