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Re: [Amps] 10 DB increase

To: "Ian White, G3SEK" <g3sek@ifwtech.co.uk>, <amps@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] 10 DB increase
From: "Radioal" <al.dolgosh@hamradio.org>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 19:03:55 -0500
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A 10 dB increase in power will be propagated as a 10 dB increase - regardless of the state of the ionosphere, antennas, locations, etc. Instantaneous or rapid cyclical changes in propagation (QSB) can account for some A--->B and B--->A (amplifier/barefoot) differences, but repetitive A to B changes will average out the differences. A difference of 10 dB is unaffected by other factors, except the cyclical changes noted above, inaccurate S-meters or just plain prevarication.

An increasingly common factor in this distortion of fact is the guy who tells you he is increasing power from 100 watts to 1000 watts - and you see a 15 dB or greater increase. It becomes obvious that his "very linear" tube-with-handles amplifier has somehow broken the 100% efficiency barrier!!

A rose is a rose, and 10 dB is 10dB.

Al - K8EUR
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian White, G3SEK" <G3SEK@ifwtech.co.uk>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 5:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Amps] 10 DB increase



kenw2dtc wrote:
Many times when someone adds 10db to the transmit side, in an A/B test, almost no one on the receiver side shows a 10 db 'S' meter increase, many times the receiver readings show a 20 or 25 db increase. Is the major reason due to liberal non-linear metering

Libertarian non-linear metering, more like :-)


or are other factors such as antenna, location of both stations, propagation etc, the greater of the factors?

Yup.



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