On 06/01/21 10:16, John Brier wrote:
At the same time, I know of a sat op who only had 5 watts and I heard this sat op not wait for a rover and call them immediately after someone else called the rover. I speculate that this sat op with only 5 watts started doing this because they could not get through at all in other way due to many people using over 5 watts.
Also remember that it isn't the wattage of your transmitter; You can have a bunch of antenna gain, concentrating all that power from a sphere into more of a teardrop going to the satellite, and overpower someone using 100W and a rubber ducky (assuming it didn't melt).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_radiated_power
Unfortunately, FM birds don't let you gauge how much power you're getting into their receiver by comparing your receive signal to the beacon.
--- Zach N0ZGO