Watts — Transmit power.
Worth less than people assume. Doubling power is barely noticeable at the other end; raising your antenna or improving it changes everything.
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Related words
- K index — How disturbed the earth's magnetic field is.
- CW — Continuous Wave. Morse code.
- Gray line — The band of twilight moving around the earth.
- Solar flux — A number that tracks solar activity.
- FM — Frequency Modulation. VHF and UHF voice.
- SWR — Standing Wave Ratio.
- FT8 — A weak-signal digital mode.
- Ionosphere — The layer that bounces HF signals back to earth.