On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:25:35 GMT, pointyhead
wrote:

Did you ever wonder how /so/ many were ever able to break the pile up
with 10w? Are you beginning to get the drift?


You should hear VK3MO on 20 metres ssb, S9+ at my location, when he's
running one watt... as every _REAL_ amateur should know the answer is
in the antenna not the RF output.

OK maybe lots of M3s can't resist pushing their newly bought gear up
to 100W or or so., Are you telling me you always keep to the 400W at
the antenna limit?

If you were on 160 metres in the 10W DC input days did you never go
above that? Dozens of G2s and G3s used to run in excess of 100W
output on 160m and some I know ran over 1KW. Some of those read this
newsgroup... bet their faces are red :-)

Nothing ever changes...

Peter, G3PHO