At 11:21 11/15/2008, Eric Lemmon wrote: >The output power of a repeater has relatively little effect on its coverage; >it's how well it receives that is important. A 3dB reduction in the >repeater's received signal strength can be significant,
And you get an improvement in receiving ability by .... oh let me see ... increasing power at the sender, oh yeah. And that is for signals headed towards the repeater. As far as coverage goes, for a fixed receiver, output power increases should normally result in received signal increases, according to the inverse square law with a low dipole antenna, almost linear with an antenna with a low takeoff angle such as a beam or a dipole, either up high. -- Dave Gomberg, San Francisco NE5EE gomberg1 at wcf dot com All addresses, phones, etc. at http://www.wcf.com/ham/info.html -----------------------------------------------------------------
