Jimmie D wrote:

...
I think I remember a test conducted to see how much power it would take to
communicate across the United States coast to coast. They started out making
the contact at near legal limit and were still able to detect the signal at
just a few milliwatts. As I remember a few was less than 10. I am sure this
was part of a ham magazine article from many years ago. perhaps someone else
here knows the details better than I.


Jimmie

It seems to me, many here have suggested there are "tons" of active hams
out there; some have even went so far as to claim the bands are "crowded."

Surely, taking in to account the above, the few brief milliwatts from an
analyzer are of no real consequence amongst this "rf pollution" ... and
ten milliwatts would never make it across such a country of such active
hams.

Regards,
JS