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Old June 9th 09, 04:27 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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Default Decibel tutorial

Actually we don't even have to remember 1.6 to get the numbers in Step
4, we can derive it from previous steps:

Step 2 gave us 9dBm=8mW and Step 3 gave us 7dBm=5mW. So 2dB (9-7) must
be a power ratio of 8/5=1.6

73,
Steve G3TXQ