-> As with most bands, if working skip many times 5 watts is fine. The
-> first contact i made when i put together my TT transverter was with
-> a Canadian and I am in North Carolina.  Used a trapped 40-10 meter
-> dipole to top it all off.  Worked a station in Florida that said he
-> was using about 800 miliwatts.  He was about 40 over s-9.  Told him
-> that I was not calling him a lier bot he sure was strong.  He went
-> to 10, then 100 then the legal limit and each time the s-meter took
-> a big jump.
-> I have worked many mobiles running only 10-20 watts and they sounded
-> good.
  As a General Rule it takes Eight times increase in Power output to
provide a better signal. So the step of 10-100-1000 would be
expected to produce a noticable better signal.
--- GEcho 1.20/Pro
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