[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
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> 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
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