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April 17th 05, 11:11 PM

wrote:

Telamon wrote:
Maybe his radios have pre-amps like the Drakes.

When you use a passive splitter the loss is 3dB power and 6dB voltage.
I
think most radio S meters are responding to the voltage number due to
the nature of the AGC circuits. Someone can correct me on this. Should
be easy enough to take a splitter in and out of line.

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Telamon
Ventura, California
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Almost all modern receivers use teh AGC voltage for the
"S-meter". And very few have any meaningfull calibration.

Yes, the calibration may indeed be off with various manufacturers, however all
things being equal it should be very easy to determine various antenna changes
with a 'particular' receiver.

Damn simple.

dxAce
Michigan
USA