I agree... sometimes you can hear the skip great... have a couple
hundred watts... and get nobody. Other times you get someone calling
you when you're running legal power. The skip is extremely
unpredictable.

Professor
www.telstar-electronics.com



The 11-meter band is very fickle. When skip is rolling, you can hear
just about anything that puts out a couple watts. When DX is dead,
it's dead regardless of how much power you run. For local chatter,
legal power for SSB is almost ideal because if you can hear a
station,
you can usually hit it with 12 watts SSB.