Some have been kicking about the Orion II's S-meter reading this morning. To
satisfy my own curiosity, I hauled out a Boonton signal generator and made
some measurements at 14.200 of signal level vs S-Meter. S-9 was found to be
50uV and then 10dB steps above and below 50uV were taken to generate the
following table. The preamp was off.
uV S-Meter
5 3
15 6
50 9
150 9+20dB
500 9+35dB
1500 9+45dB
5000 9+55dB
The S9 50uV meter reading seems to hold from band to band very well. The
strongest signals I receive are approx S9+50dB.
W9XX
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