Hi;
Buying the antenna and support structure and antenna is the easy part.  The harder part comes when the boxes show up at your door.
Richard
    
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ron & Denise Miller 
  To: [log in to unmask] 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 9:23 PM
  Subject: Re: amps


  Hi Richard,
  Your right, you'd get about an s unit going from 100 to 500 watts. Remember,
  an s unit is supposed to be a 6 dB increase or decrease in signal strength.
  Your change from 100 to 500 watts would give you about a 6 dB gain in signal
  strength.

  If you can do it, more antenna gain will trump lotsa watts every time.
  Consider that an increase from 100 watts to 1,600 watts, more than our legal
  limit, yields a 12 dB increase in signal strength--2 s units. I can buy a
  lot of antenna and support structure for the same price I would pay for a
  kilowatt amplifier.

  73


  Ron Miller
  N6MSA
  Clearwater, Fl. U.S.A.
  SKYPE arjay1




  -----Original Message-----
  From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
  On Behalf Of Richard Fiorello
  Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:01 PM
  To: [log in to unmask]
  Subject: amps

  Hello;
  Can't resist my two cents on the amp issue.  I would much prefer a 60 =
  foot tower with a nice six element beam.  Unfortunately, it is much =
  easier to buy an amp than erecting the tower.  If an amp isn't =
  overdriven a signal isn't to wide.  As for tvi type interference, true =
  an amp can aggravate that problem.  I found that going from 100 to 500 =
  watts gives you about an extra s unit.
  Richard