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 II> transmitting last year, I heard it with a handi-talkie when it was
 II> OVER 1,000 miles away, and it was only transmitting 200 miliwatts:
 II> TWO TENTHS OF ONE WATT!  But I could only hear it when it was
 II> above the horizon.
 JS> My tests with 4 watts on the best possible terrain (water), resulted
 JS> in less than 40 miles. The altitude of the antenna also has a major
 JS> bearing on distance. ...Both local altitude, and general altitude
 JS> above sea-level affect transmitting distances when line-of-sight is
 JS> a factor.
 
True, HOWEVER if your eyes are at the level of the top of a CB
antenna, you won't see much more than 40 miles over water when the
skip is out.  Try going to the top of a mountain some time and THEN
see how far your CB can communicate!  (Don't forget to take the same
antenna you used in your previous experiments.)
 
 JS> A ham radio operator may use approx. 10 - 1,000
 JS> watts, and transmit anywhere from 2 meters down to 80 meters on the
 JS> radio frequencies alloted to amateur radio.)
 
 II> ERROR!  Ham radio operators have talked accross the Atlantic and
 II> Pacific oceans using ONE TENTH of a watt to their antennas!
 II> Hams have bands ranging from 160 Meters, (1.8 to 2 MHz) up to
 II> literally LIGHT!
 JS> [...] (stuff about various frequencies alloted to hams.)
 II> BTW, Hams have talked accross both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
 II> using LESS THAN ONE WATT OUT OF THEIR TRANSMITTERS!
 
 JS> One of the call-signs in my immediate family is KF4ICR (the other I
 
KF4ICR, huh?  OK, I'll tell you a little bit about "Mr. B" who lives
at 3346, (I won't say the name of the Drive).  He has a codeless Tech
license which was issued for the first time, (not a renewal), on
March 27th of last year, and it will expire Mar. 27, 2006.  Also, he
gets his E-mail via Juno, but I won't say what name he uses there to
protect his privacy and avoid your temper.  
 
BTW, it took me less than 5 minutes to get that information and more
about him!
 
 JS> forget.) ...And I too have talked around the world on 4 watts (11
 JS> meter band, using a super-laser 500 beam antenna on a 80 foot tower).
 
Ya, but I doubt that you did it within the last 2 years!  (Sunspots,
ya' know).  On the other paw, I heard, (and could have worked - if
there weren't at least 100 other American Hams wanting to do the same
thing - this afternoon... IN SOUTHERN AFRICA!  Of course, this was NOT
on C.B.!  The cute part is that I was NOT using a fancy antenna - just
a piece of wire about 20 Ft. long!
 
 II> The frequencies below about 50 MHz are used for local and
 II> international
 II> communications, the higher frequencies are used for local,
 II> satellite,
 
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