[AMPS] Re: SSB Power Output

[John Nelson]

Message text written by Jon Ogden

> I once made the same comment between 1KW and 1.5KW and you should have
seen the comments! Yes, they say, it DOES make a difference. I don't buy it
though.<

It's hard to understand the reasoning, since 1.76dB doesn't remotely sound
like enough to make an operational difference in an HF pile-up situation.
So my guess is that any improvement would be psychological in origin rather
than actual. But maybe if you feel better about your station and have more
confidence in it -- however unsoundly based -- you'll do better. Is the
consequent enhancement in station performance due to your power increase or
your change in attitude? Either way it's real enough.

Amateur radio stations are operated by humans, and humans are highly
irrational in certain important (and largely unconscious) respects. So it's
probably wrong to assert that only pure engineering issues such as dB
increases are involved, although the wider arguments aren't really
pertinent to this reflector. Personally, I tend to feel there's some danger
of making the error of logic usually called "post hoc ergo propter hoc"
(loosely expressed as "A happened after B, therefore A was caused by B").  

John Nelson
GW4FRX




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