At 02:55 PM 8/8/98 EDT, AD6E@aol.com wrote:
...
> Can you really notice (or will your RX
>"capture") a signal that is 1.7 dB stronger than another? Certainly in the
>realm of high tech digital communications thats significant and measurable.
>In FM communications, thats barely enough to "capure". But in the ear? Give
>me a break.
I don't think I buy Paul's argument about AGC differentiating between two
signals 1.7 dB apart, but I *am* convinced that averaged over the course of
a contest, 1.7 dB makes a significant difference, just as surely as you
can't argue in any single QSO, that 1.7 dB more power made THE difference.
But over 24 or 48 hours, X stations just above the noise floor that
wouldn't have been workable otherwise, Y minutes saved by getting out of
pileups just marginally quicker on the average, etc. Makes a bigger
difference in some contests than in others, but it's always there ...
73, Pete Smith N4ZR
n4zr@contesting.com
"That's WEST Virginia. Thanks and 73"
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