{"id":4195,"date":"2026-07-21T06:15:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T11:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=4195"},"modified":"2026-07-21T06:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T11:38:23","slug":"can-you-hear-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=4195","title":{"rendered":"Can you hear me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we first downsized our QTH (mistake!) my antenna made its way to the attic. \u00a0I settled on running 25 watts for the following reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Low power was required because the antenna was in the attic and the dwellings are very close together in the neighborhood.<\/li>\n<li>RFI from my transmitter was not acceptable.<\/li>\n<li>The old rule of thumb was to hear the difference at the other end it took a 3 db increase. \u00a0Therefore, power would have to double for it to make a difference. \u00a0Not wanting to go to 50 watts or even higher I would just live at 25 watts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The third bullet above is starting to be questioned. \u00a0If my little 1.5 watt NorCal 40B can be heard (yes even with my attic antenna) would a power increase of less the double make a difference? \u00a0This is supported by the fact that I make many contacts at 2 (HW-8), 5 (TR-25) and 10 (FTX-1F) watts. \u00a0Maybe just a few watts would pull my signal above the noise level and result in more contacts.<\/p>\n<p>I am now testing for possible negative effects of increasing my power level. \u00a0I would like to get to 35 watts with a very remote possibility of getting to 40 watts on certain bands.<\/p>\n<p>Note: RF Exposure calculations performed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we first downsized our QTH (mistake!) my antenna made its way to the attic. \u00a0I settled on running 25 watts for the following reasons: Low power was required because the antenna was in the attic and the dwellings are very close together in the neighborhood. RFI from my transmitter was not acceptable. The old\u2026 <a class='read-more' href='https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/?p=4195'>Continue Reading &lsquo;Can you hear me?&rsquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,23,13,14,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hw-8","category-norcal-40b","category-operating","category-tr-25","category-yaesu-ftx-1-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4195"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4204,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195\/revisions\/4204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wa2bsw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}