[Amps] 10dB and propagation

[R.Measures]

On Feb 8, 2005, at 7:39 AM, Ian White G3SEK wrote:

> R. Measures wrote:
>>> When measurements don't fit in with everything we already know, real 
>>> scientists and engineers are trained to ask themselves:
>>>
>>> "Is this something really new - am I really another Einstein? Or did 
>>> I simply get it wrong?"
>>>
>> The question is simply: Is my HP-355 step-attenuator set 
>> intermittently off by 3db?
>
> If you still cannot see that the potential sources of error in your 
> "propagation experiment" were *vastly* more numerous and complicated 
> than that, then this horse is dead.

NBS traceable step-attenuator A-B measurement is the gold standard of 
gain and loss determinations.
>
>
> -- 
> 73 from Ian G3SEK         'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
> http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek
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Richard L. Measures, AG6K, 805.386.3734.  www.somis.org