On Sep 15, 6:18*am, John Smith wrote:
... while even losing 500 watts of a 1KW signal can be considered
"trivial", losing 50% of ones received signal is NOT!

That depends on the signal to noise ratio. If the signal to noise
ratio remains the same while 50% of one's signal is lost, the dynamic
range of a low-noise HF receiver usually makes up for it. Witness the
Beverage antenna where 99% receive power loss is tolerated: (from
Wikipedia)

"While Beverage antennas have excellent directivity, because they are
close to lossy earth they do not produce absolute gain (typically -20
to -10 dBi). This is rarely a problem, because the antenna is used at
frequencies where there are high levels of atmospheric radio noise."
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73, Cecil, w5dxp.com