On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Scott Rosenfeld NF3I wrote:
> 100w vs. 5w = 13 db difference. With the amount of noise (electrical,
> wind, tire-on-pavement) in the mobile environment, one could assess that
> this adds up to a difference of 13 db, or about 2 S-units.
Well, I don't agree! I find the electrical noise no better or worse
than at home about 90% of the time. Now and then a bad xfmr or such.
But I wear a headphone to keep out the other noise! I only use one
so that I can also hear emergency vehicles when they come along, but
even having one makes a hugh difference.
And I wind up running about 50w most of the time when I am /m. Just
seem to have longer, full copy QSOs that way.
One other thing.....
When I am tunning around the band, if I hear a very weak station
calling CQ and they are not signing /qrp, I never call. I figure
that if they are not qrp then they are running at least 100w. With
my 5w I will be in the noise even worse than they are!
cul,
73, Ron, SOWP 5545M,
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