It's just a continuation of humorous electrical loose-talk.
For example. no change to anything, such as moving
all the gear around in the shack, is worthwhile
unless it produces a "3dB Improvement"

"Richard Clark" wrote in message
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On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:19:29 GMT, Jim - NN7K
wrote:
Cecil is CORRECT
A web search for "decibel" uncovered 100 dB of information.

I must've missed something here with this dimensionless, referenceless
declaration. I'm not even sure if there isn't an implicit negative
sign to it.