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
- Solar flux — A number that tracks solar activity.
- APRS — Automatic Packet Reporting System.
- Sporadic E — Sudden short-lived openings.
- CW — Continuous Wave. Morse code.
- Ionosphere — The layer that bounces HF signals back to earth.
- K index — How disturbed the earth's magnetic field is.
- SWR — Standing Wave Ratio.
- CTCSS / PL tone — A sub-audible tone that opens a repeater.