On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 15:35:21 -0500, "J. Mc Laughlin"
wrote:

73 Mac N8TT


Let me re-iterate what you said, assuming I understand it.

Art is saying that it is better to have a more accurate TOA than the
last db of antenna gain, but you are saying that a better s/n ratio
(as handled by the antenna) is better than the last db of gain.

Of course, Art started his statement with something about a person
turning up their amplifier and having no better results. Therefore he
must also be considering being heard as well as hearing. I would
think that an amplifier will, for the most part, increase the
radiation strength of every angle radiated at all by the antenna. If
the amp represents a 6dB gain over the radio, it will represent a 6 dB
gain in the any direction in which the lobe points. At least for the
transmission, that should provide the 1 db difference we are talking
about.

This doesn't address that time of day in which the west hears from the
east in one way propagation.

Correct me if I am wrong here.


--
Buck
N4PGW