On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:48:43 -0500, "David G. Nagel"
wrote:

Now if you go to the receiver and look at the signal strength meter,
s-meter, you will see that 16db is only about 1 to 1 1/2 s units. In
that a receiver can differentiate a signal down to a very small value
the loss is of only academic interest, except to the purists.

Have you ever check the calibration of your S-meter? I have never
found one that was 6dB per S-unit. Most seem to be around 3½-dB. Using
that yard stick 16 dB is 4½ S-units. Many would consider that
subatantial.

Danny
K6MHE