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January 5th 07, 04:50 AM
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s-meter readings - drake r8 vs.palstar r30cc vs. kenwood r-5000.
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BDK wrote: In article m, says... David wrote: On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 02:17:32 GMT, Telamon wrote: In article .com, "john" wrote: An exception would be radios that have a signal strength meter in dBm, which is an absolute scale. Millivolts? actually the palstar and the drake scales are in Decibels, while the kenwoods scale is in Db at the top and millivolts at the bottom. also before anyone asks my rf gain is fully clockwise on both the drake and kenwood. the palstar doesn't have a rf gain control. You can't even be sure identical radios will have the same S-Meter readings, in most cases. The reading is pretty meaningless, except to compare antennas, or if a preselector is used, to adjust for max reading. Nonsense. -- Telamon Ventura, California |
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