That just illustrates how silly some of this stuff can get!
An increase in power from 80W to 500W is about 8dB. That would show up
as just over 1 S-unit on a meter calibrated at 6dB/S-unit.
5 S-units on the same meter would need the power to go up to 80KW !!!
Steve G3TXQ
WA6RKN wrote:
> On average, again, band conditions not withstanding, if I am talking to
> someone and he is cranking 80 - 90 watts barefoot, and he turns on his
> amplifier and pumps 500 watts at me, generally speaking, his signal will
> rise around 5 s-units.
>
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