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
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
being heard by UK stations. And last winter I received RX report from
all over Europe and beyond (best RX report came from 3500km, giving me
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
some extra kHz, what would give space for other (wideband) modes.
73, Rik ON7YD - OR7T
Quoting mal hamilton <[email protected]>:
Nearly every 500 Khz operator that I communicate with seems to have
a Noise problem on Receive, therefore in order to overcome this
common noise complaint I would suggest a request to OFCOM for an
increase in ERP at the TX end to 20W erp. This hopefully would give
a better signal over noise at the RX end.
I recently conducted some tests by reducing my TX erp until the
signal disappeared into the noise at the RX end and was surprised by
how much power was needed to overcome this noise problem. I checked
two UK grabbers as well and and the results were poor.
The mode used was normal CW.
73 de mal/g3kev
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