[TowerTalk] Measuring Coax Loss

[Cqtestk4xs at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/12/2010 1:17:49 AM Greenwich Standard Time,  
k5go at cox.net writes:

3 dB is  very large regardless of how many you are starting  with.


You bet it is...depending on whose S meter you're looking at it  could be 
close to an S unit.  Out here when the hordes of EU stations call,  many 
times they are S-3/4.  It doesn't take too many dB to rise above the  
pack....like around 3 db.  Kinda like a shorty 40 vs a  dipole.
 
Bill KH7XS