It is pretty widely accepted in contesting that an improvement in
*either* receive or transmit capability of 1 dB will yield a useful
increase in the number of QSOs over a 48-hour contest, even if it has an
indiscernible effect on 99.5 percent of your contacts.
73, Pete N4ZR
The World Contest
There's a saying among VHF / UHF'ers in reference
to coax and connector losses that every .5db counts.
73! Ken - K0PP
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True at UHF/VHF. The world if HF is quite a different place for most of us.
If your purpose is to find that sweet second or two where a very brief
exchange might be confirmed on HF, a difference of a few dB might count, as
Pete notes.
But for communications involving a lengthy exchange of infor
Well when I was in to EME on 2m I was hunting for
every .1 dB I could find.
/Jim SM2EKM
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On 2011-06-07 16:42, Rose wrote:
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> There's a saying among VHF / UHF'ers in reference
> to coax and connector losses that every .5db counts.
>
> 73! Ken - K0PP
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On 6/7/2011 6:14 AM, Pete Smith wrote:
> It is pretty widely accepted in contesting that an improvement in
> *either* receive or transmit capability of 1 dB will yield a useful
> increase in the number of QSOs over a 48-hour contest, even if it has an
> indiscernible effect on 99.5 percent of your
These threads were closed earlier this morning. Please take the
discussion off-list.
73,
Eric
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On 6/7/2011 11:26 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 6/7/2011 6:14 AM, Pete Smith wrote:
>> It is pretty widely accepted in contesting that an improvement in
>> *either* receive or tr
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