[Boatanchors] Using a SG-230 tuner on AM

J. Forster jfor at quik.com
Mon Aug 10 15:04:43 EDT 2009


You really mean dBm

D is Deka as in ten
d is deci as in 1/10

a bB is 1/10 Bell

M is Mega(watts)
m is milli(watts)

-John

==============


> Ah, Bob,
>
> I think that you are looking at a DBM table where the reference 0 DBM is 1
> milliwatt. What the rest of us are talking about is the number of DB (not
> DBM) above some given power level. When using DB we can use any reference
> we
> wish as the starting point. If expressing in DBM then you start at 1
> milliwatt as your reference.
>
> 73
> Gary  K4FMX




More information about the Boatanchors mailing list