> From: R.Measures <r@somis.org>
> Date: 2006/01/02 Mon AM 05:56:44 EST
> To: Joe Isabella <n3ji@yahoo.com>
> CC: Amps <amps@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [Amps] How about this furnace?
> In a telephone conversation with a multi-multi contest station
> owner-operator in Colorado - whom I knew ran several 2500W amplifiers,
> he kvetched at length about contest stations that used "illegal 10kW
> amplifiers". The laugher is that the advantage of a 10kW amplifier
> over a legal amplifier is only 8db - hardly noticeable with QSB.
Rich - I am surprised that you would laugh at 8 db and refer to it as "only" 8
dB - harly noticeable with QSB."
8 dB is only the difference between your average, city-lot shunt fed tower on
160M and perhaps the highest gain 160M antenna in the world which, just like
having that gain in transmit power, is no advantage on receive because a good
beverage system would outperform that antenna on receive. 8 dB is "only" the
difference between a stack of five element yagis (10 elements) and
approximately sixteen five element yagis (80 elements) in phase which would
also perhaps be the largest antenna system on any HF band.
The difference between 2500W and 1500W is extremely difficult to achieve with
antenna gain once you already have about 13 dBi on an HF band. There are plenty
of variables in comparing results in contesting without losing sleep or
feeling guilty as to what place you might have achieved relative to someone
else who worked harder on their antennas and did a better job of operating if
you been legal in your operation.
In my opinion, running 2.5KW or 10KW in a contest is exactly equivalent to
playing in a golf tournament and dropping a ball out of your pocket when no one
is looking instead of declaring a lost ball.
Stan, K5GO
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