"Ed" wrote:
The bottom line for the Rx, all it cares about since it doesn't know
what kind of antenna is feeding it, is the signal strength at the
input.... so I'd say a calibrated microvolt reading reflecting that
strength is not very meaningless at all.
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Received signal strength, whether in terms of relative S-units or the
measure of real incident fields, is at least as much the result of local
conditions as of the ERP of the transmission source on the path toward the
receiver, the frequency, and propagation conditions.

So the received signal strength indication, whether relative or "real,"
isn't a hugely significant indicator of any of these parameters.

RF