Sure, but sometimes conditions make across the state comms seem like across the
ocean. I'm in an Air Force comm unit and I asure you, 100W is definitetly NOT
enough (and yes, I was in NO for a month). We have 500W amps and even then it
can be marginal. As an experiment, I worked my Air Force unit from home --
they heard me loud & clear, while I had some difficulty hearing them. Is that
a scientific result? No, but that and the fact that I use that equipment quite
often is enough to convince me.
Joe, N3JI
Bill Turner <dezrat1242@ispwest.com> wrote:
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At 02:57 PM 1/1/2006, Joe Isabella wrote:
>Tell that to the MARS operators that had to run 2kW++ to get
>through... I personally have friends that were overseas and needed
>every watt they had from Big Henrys & Collins amps.
>
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We were talking Katrina-level communication, not overseas MARS.
Nobody on the other side of the world is going to be of much help
with Katrina-type disasters. :-)
Like it says in the FCC rules, use the power appropriate to the communication.
73, Bill W6WRT
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