[TowerTalk] 5 db required to see?

[Pete Smith]

At 10:11 AM 5/25/00 -0400, Bill Coleman AA4LR wrote:
>On 5/24/00 10:16 PM, Pete Smith at n4zr@contesting.com wrote:
>
>>Over 48 hours, and a thousand
>>contacts or so, it is inevitable that the 1-dB advantage will result in a
>>few QSOs made that would not have been, otherwise.  
>
>This assumes that the operater's skill is sufficient to take advantage of 
>the 1 dB difference. 

Perhaps I should have said, "All other factors being equal..."  Of course,
a good op will get more out of both the X-level and the X+1 dB level
station over the course of a contest, and the 1 dB will bring him or her
more gain than it would for a less-skilled operator.

73, Pete Smith N4ZR
n4zr@contesting.com 



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