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
On Tue, 1 Apr 1997 km1h@juno.com wrote:
>
> On Tue, 1 Apr 97 07:25:11 -0800 Rich Measures <measures@vc.net> writes:
>
> >>
> >Two db on moonbounce is worth having. Two db on 75m is not.
>
> Maybe not if you are up in the ding-a-ling part of the band. Down in the
> part of the bands where "real men" operate, 2dB can make the difference
> between busting a pileup or playing with yourself. The "apparent"
> difference is even more pronounced with at-the-noise-level propagation on
> 160/80 CW.
>
> 73....Carl KM1H 1.8MHz to 10GHz
>
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