[AMPS] 'family radio' power?

[Bill Aycock]

The latest  WalMart flyer, in todays paper has this:

Family Radio
Two-mile talk range,
500 megawatts of power
for Camping,skiing,and
keeping in touch.

All that from a rubber duck?, and not even water cooled?
Bill- W4BSG
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Bill Aycock   ---   Persimmon Hill 
 Woodville, Alabama, US 35776
 (in the N.E. corner of the State)
      W4BSG   --   Grid EM64vr
        baycock@HiWAAY.net
             w4bsg@arrl.net

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