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Old September 28th 08, 09:07 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Cecil Moore[_2_] Cecil Moore[_2_] is offline
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John Smith wrote:
However, when I ran rigs with NO s-meter, my ear served well enough ...


Indeed, the 1-9 Signal Strength system was in operation
before S-meters were in standard use, dating back to the
very early 20th century. The "x dB over S9" came later.

Even when I got my first ham license in the early 50's,
the RF gain control used for CW rendered the S-meter
reading invalid.
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