On Wed, 12 December 2001, "Kim Bottles" wrote:
> With the yagi pointed at the Carolina station he was
> registering a solid 5 dB over S-9 with peaks to 10
> dB over S-9. Flipping the director and reflector
> dropped him down to barely peaking S-1. Is this
> really 50+ dB front to
> back?
When results are unbelievable, the experiment is
likely bad.
Most assuredly your s-meter is NOT 6dB per S-unit.
More likely around 3dB. And not "linear" (oxymoron)
either, being probably less than 3dB near S1 and more
than 3dB near S9.
Try using the built-in step attenuator to check the s-
meter. It's likely to be far more accurate.
73 Mike N2MG
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