What power do you use?
What power do you use?
You often hear the, but they can run more power than us argument being made, but what power do we actually normally use?
Personally I don't often operate at more than 100 watts & more often at a lot less. I do have a 500 watt linear & an old Valve HF Yaesu that when tuned well runs at an alleged 150 - 200 watts, but normally I use a FT857 or similar 100 watt radio.
I love QRP, normally run at less than 2.5 watts SSB.
Normal maximum power is.
80 - 6 meters 100 watts.
4 meters 50 watts.
2 meters & 70 CM 50 watts.
Personally I don't often operate at more than 100 watts & more often at a lot less. I do have a 500 watt linear & an old Valve HF Yaesu that when tuned well runs at an alleged 150 - 200 watts, but normally I use a FT857 or similar 100 watt radio.
I love QRP, normally run at less than 2.5 watts SSB.
Normal maximum power is.
80 - 6 meters 100 watts.
4 meters 50 watts.
2 meters & 70 CM 50 watts.
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Re: What power do you use?
well as from yesterday i will be using 1 or 10watts for 2m. finally made a power lead for my yaesu ft-480r and have had some great reports simplex and via the repeater. been told the audio is top quality not bad for a rig that hasn't been used for 18yrs and not sure when it was made.could do with the ctcss pcb that plugs into the socket on the under side.
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