Zombie Wolf wrote:
. . .To get a 1 unit s-meter difference on the average receiver, it
actually takes 6 decibels more signal, or 4 times the power, from the
transmitter, to produce that signal increase. . .

I'd be very interested in seeing the basis for that statement. Or are
you simply and mistakenly assuming that the ficticious 6 dB "S-Unit" so
fondly and inexplicably used by amateurs actually represents a division
on a typical receiver S meter? Have you checked your receiver's S meter?

Roy Lewallen, W7EL