>From Dave's post: I guess I got lucky to have 100 feet of 1-5/8" heliax
going up the tower. There's probably more loss in the pigtails and antenna
selector switches in the shack and at the top of the tower. I'm sure that
the rx preamp at the antenna helps a lot. I attempted to work one station
running a kW who was around S7 here who couldn't hear my signal which
couldn't have been more than two S-units less there; said I needed more
power. As the saying goes, "If you can't hear them, you can't work them".
WA3EOQ
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