Well now lets see:
10 * log (2.5/1.5) = 1.76,
so if they were "very loud" they would have had to been doing something
very right with their antenna system, or had very good propagation.
Less than 2 dB does not make the difference from "loud" to "very loud."
You'd be hard pressed to see the difference on an S meter. If you closed
your eyes and just listened, you would not be able to hear the
difference. (you can leave your eyes open and get the same results.)
Perhaps 2 dB might give you the edge in a pileup, but not much of an
edge. And it will help a little bit when your signal is right about
equal to the noise level. It will make the difference between a QSO and
no QSO, occasionally, but not often. If you're already loud, or very
loud, 2 dB more is not going to be very impressive.
The advantage of an amplifier that can put out 2.5 kW is not the higher
full power capability so much as it is the more reliable, high duty
cycle, long term, full legal limit capability.
Ken N6KB
> Old Chinese Proverb say
> You run what you can get away with or what your conscience will let you....
>
> Yes they were very loud on 40.
>
>
>> Is China allowed 2.5 KW?
>>
>> Jim W7Ry
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>> Was that 2.5KW on the output meter? No wonder B7P was so loud!
>>>
>>> 73,
>>> Larry K4AB
>>>
>>> 2010/11/8 Hsu <hsu4qro@gmail.com>
>>>
>>>
>
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