Topband: Demo of the value of one dB

[Jim Brown]

On Fri,2/26/2016 9:49 AM, Doug Grant wrote:
> Many years ago K1JX casually commented that contest scores improve 6%
> per dB. I filed that away for future reference.
>
> A couple of years ago I did a quick analysis and discovered he was right!

There's clearly a difference, but the magnitude of the difference 
probably depends on the contest. Quite a few years ago, N6ZFO, whose job 
in pharama development included lots of statistics, did an analysis for 
NCCC saying that 1 dB was good for 2.6% in ARRL Sweepstakes.

73, Jim K9YC