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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:08:29 +0200
From: Rik Strobbe <Rik.Strobbe@fys.kuleuven.be>
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How many UK stations are running the current 10 W ERP limit ?
Since the increase from 1W to 10W I have noticed only 1 station that =20
became 10dB stronger.
I have made QSO's with UK stations running as low as 10mW ERP.
I am running about 2.5W ERP and so far I haven't had any problem in =20
being heard by UK stations. And last winter I received RX report from =20
all over Europe and beyond (best RX report came from 3500km, giving me =20
a solid 559).
I am not sure that an increase to 20W ERP will have much effect.
I you're going to ask ODCOM for a favour it might be better to ask =20
some extra kHz, what would give space for other (wideband) modes.

73, Rik  ON7YD - OR7T

Quoting mal hamilton <g3kevmal@talktalk.net>:

> Nearly every 500 Khz operator that I communicate with seems to have  =20
> a Noise problem on Receive, therefore in order to overcome this  =20
> common noise complaint I would suggest a request to OFCOM for an  =20
> increase in ERP at the TX end to 20W erp. This hopefully would give  =20
> a better signal over noise at the RX end.
> I recently conducted some tests by reducing my TX erp until the  =20
> signal disappeared into the noise at the RX end and was surprised by =20
>  how much power was needed to overcome this noise problem. I checked =20
>  two UK grabbers as well and and the results were poor.
> The mode used was normal CW.
> 73 de mal/g3kev
>