Vic, I love your arguments: > Suppose you have a couple of hundred watts and you are trying > to work DX on 160 meters. There will be lots of times that > you call a station and he simply doesn't hear you. If you > are just below the noise level at his location, a couple of > DB may put you just over, and you will be heard. You can > work a lot of DX with low power, but that doesn't mean that > there's no value in higher power.
But believe me, you even will have a much better s/n if you use your mobile phone and you can have lots of contacts all over the world with it and it´s cheaper!! And there is less QRM too and you will have no problems with tornados destroying your antennas. ;-) 73 de Peter, DL2FI _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com