Yep, 7 dB is better than 5 dB. ;-) --- On Tue, 4/20/10, ynkedragon at aol.com <ynkedragon at aol.com> wrote: > Is 500 watts not enough? For the rarest of the rare > DX, for top-ten contest results, maybe not. But it is > a better-than-5 dB improvement from exciter level.