--- On Thu, 4/22/10, Mark Hammond N8MH <marklhamm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think we should all use
> hexidecimal. Or binary :)
I tell my electronics students that we can express gain or loss in dB by taking
the log of power ratios and multiplying by 10, or by taking the log of the
voltage or current ratios and multiplying by 20.
If we multiply the log by 16 instead, then the result is expressed in
hexadecibels. :-)
("Hexabels" sounds too much like a made-up word.)
73, de John, KD2BD
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