Tom, G3OLB said
600 watts of RF puts about 4 amps into my long wire so if Jack VE1ZZ
gets 12 amps into his long wire, he must have 5 or 6 KW of RF!
Well not necessarily. If Jack has got 900ft of wire in his antenna
and we assume it is an inverted L with an average height of 80ft
(27m) and a top of 820ft (270m); and we also assume that he has an
extensive ground plane that he uses for 160m he could possibly get
that sort of antenna current with 1500w.
Either way it still represents an erp of nearly 30watts.
In which case we should be able to see Jack's signal when CFH is only
30dBs on the Alan scale
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Regards, Peter, G3LDO
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