Topband: Power

[Harold Smith]

If the "every body else" stations run legal power the illegal power from the
"big guns" in that case is 1,5MW?
The big differences in signal strength are generally caused by location and
antennas, not by power

73
Peter


Actually in that case the "big gun would be running in the excess of 
240,000,000 watts.

S5 to S9 = 16 times the power. S9 to  +40dB = 10,000 times.
Going from 1.5kW to 12kW out will gain you 3 S units. But on 160 that could
make a huge difference

I have visited,  "The Langenburg Sender" in Germany. They were running 960kW 
input
on 1584kHz. That "rig" would not come close to fitting on my property. The 
power supply
alone was bigger than my house.

Price W0RI