[VHFcontesting] Six meter power amps and icom 706 mkiiG's

[Paul Kiesel via VHFcontesting]

It's about 7 dB. That amount of gain is not insignificant. Particularly when signals are weak.
73, Paul K7CW
      From: Paul Kiesel <k7cw at yahoo.com>
 To: Mike (KA5CVH) Urich <mike at ka5cvh.com> 
 Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 8:08 AM
 Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Six meter power amps and icom 706 mkiiG's
   
It's about 7 dB. That amount of gain is not insignificant. Particularly when signals are weak.
73, Paul K7CW

 

     From: Mike (KA5CVH) Urich <mike at ka5cvh.com>
 To: Mark Spencer <mark at alignedsolutions.com> 
Cc: VHF Contesting <vhfcontesting at contesting.com> 
 Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 7:12 AM
 Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Six meter power amps and icom 706 mkiiG's
   
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Mark Spencer <mark at alignedsolutions.com> wrote:

> I'm contemplating ways I can run 300 watts or more on six meters (500 watts or more is my preference, less than 300 is probably not worth the effort in my view vs the stock 100 watts.)

Mike wrote

The difference between 100 and 500 watts is about 6dB, or ~2-3 S-units
at the receivers location. For mobile I personally don't see investing
the money or time.  However for "well" equipping a portable station,
like activating rare grids that's different.

-- 
Mike Urich KA5CVH
http://ka5cvh.com

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