So I am saying? All I am trying to do is explain what the industry experts have stated about the issue. Their determinations are published as technical guidance for frequency coordinators, system designers, and people who write coverage modeling and prediction software.
I did not personally do the research but I do know some of these people and I trust their findings. As far as your example of a repeater tail - that isn't really relevant since you are listening on a wideband radio whose volume setting was established to provide you with a certain audio level and the resulting clarity, distortion, and noise characteristics you had when listening to that radio provided a certain deliverd audio quality [DAQ]. You can believe what you want, but the facts are that in order to deliver a given DAQ a narrow band radio needs 3dB more signal than a wideband one does for the same DAQ. You must also keep in mind that most of the'curve' for DAQ and coverage issues occurs at the lower signal levels at the fringes of system coverage. Comparisons between the two formats will probably be very similar throughout most of the repeater's coverage area where higher signal levels are found. -------------------------------------------------------------- --- In [email protected], MCH <m...@...> wrote: "So you're saying the signal is more affected by multipath or fading? I find that hard to believe, too..."
