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Subject: [AMPS] more db's
From: dbr@alumni.caltech.edu (David B. Ritchie)
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 00:05:01 -0800 (PST)
Dear Hakan:
Lets keep it nice
Thank you for your view.
Dave N7UE



On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Hakan Ericsson wrote:

> Hi folks.
> N7UE wrote:
> 
> >3db is barely detectable by the human ear
> >1-2 db can be measured by expensive instruments
> >2db hardly seems useful on any band (of course, the first 160db may be 
> >VERY useful)
> >Dave N7UE
> 
> Dave, you do not know what you are talking about.
> 
> Let me give you an result from a test in real life that I did on 14 MHz
> SSB. (Propagations was backscatter and signal levels around S6)
> I blind tested a station using my 2 amps that has a keydwn difference 
> in power of 2,2db.
> I can switch very fast between my two amps and did it many many times.
> To the other station I called the amps "the big one" and "the small
> one", and he told me exactly correct every time witch one I was using.
> I made short transmissions, long transmissions trying to fool him but
> still he made no errors. The big amp was stronger and he could always
> detect it. 
> Later, he got my figures and he was supprised of the difference.
> 
> I have been operating 2m EME for 9 years. On EME, one db improvement on
> tx is a lot. A 3db improvement is like changing wife, a new life opens
> up.
> 
> "Life is to short for QRP"
> 73's Hakan
> 
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