 | The antenna is more important than the power |
| Operating skills are more important than the power |
| The longer and stiffer the antenna ( assuming it is tuned) the better it
will work |
| A magnetic antenna is about 10% as good as the same antenna with a ground
( counterpoise) |
| The antenna color does not matter |
| The higher the loading coil the better the radiation pattern will be. |
| Most modern radios have 95% modulation out of the box, cutting to limiting
diode only allows the radio to over modulate, this causes distortion,
clipping, harmonics, and LOSS of power. A properly modulated radio peaks at
about 8 watts. |
| Power mikes only help people with week voices or truckers in a high noise environment
( be turning down the mike and talking loud to block ambient noise |
| If you want more power (illegal on cb) you must go to 100 watts to get any
noticeable difference in range, this will give you about 1 s unit at the
other end. |
