[Amps] 10 DB increase

[R.Measures]

On Feb 5, 2005, at 7:19 PM, Radioal wrote:

> I am not questioning the fact that this was measured - only the basis 
> for believing that what was measured had no other explanation than to 
> disprove physical law.  I suggest that something else may be at work 
> here to skew the measurements.  The challenge is to find the reason 
> for it, not believe blindly in it.


I was probably the last one to believe the measurements because I was 
not on the Rx-end of things until after I sold the PB1 amplifier.  
However, the accuracy of such measurements is not in doubt since I used 
a NBS-traceable HP 355 attenuator set to make them.  If blindly 
believing in the NBS is stupid, then I plead guilty.  For what it's 
worth, most of the free-3db encounters occurred on 40m and 80m in the 
early morning as the D-layer was building.
- cheerz
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> Al - K8EUR
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Measures" <r at somis.org>
> To: "Radioal" <al.dolgosh at hamradio.org>
> Cc: <amps at contesting.com>; "Ian White, G3SEK" <g3sek at ifwtech.co.uk>
> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 7:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [Amps] 10 DB increase
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>> On Feb 5, 2005, at 1:51 PM, Radioal wrote:
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>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Measures" <r at somis.org>
>>> To: "Radioal" <al.dolgosh at hamradio.org>
>>> Cc: <amps at contesting.com>; "Ian White, G3SEK" <g3sek at ifwtech.co.uk>
>>> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 10:11 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Amps] 10 DB increase
>>>
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The ionosphere is not a parametric amplifier being pumped by solar 
>>>>> energy - there are some weird theories floating around that have 
>>>>> not been proven.
>>>>
>>>> So why did a 20db amplifier deliver 23db during certain conditions 
>>>> and 20db at other times?
>>>>>
>>> Why assume something to be true that violates known physical laws?
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>> I assumed not, I measured.  This was what trusted friends had been 
>> occasionally reporting for months.  I was only able to confirm what 
>> they occasionally measured after I sold the amplifier.
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>>> The scientific assumption should be that it is an anomaly, and 
>>> effort should be made to prove IT true rather than use the single 
>>> fact to cast doubt on known reality.
>>
>> There were many measurements by others.  I was one of the last 
>> measurers.
>>
>> Richard L. Measures, AG6K, 805.386.3734.  www.somis.org
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Richard L. Measures, AG6K, 805.386.3734.  www.somis.org