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Setting up an amateur radio station

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    #32
    end of the road
    Registered Users Posts: 28,997 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    Five Lamps wrote: »
    With reception extending not much further than the buildings that houses the station.
    because the range is restricted by ofcom and not because of the band itself

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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    #33
    turbocab
    Registered Users Posts: 226 ✭✭turbocab


    end of the road wrote: »
    because the range is restricted by ofcom and not because of the band itself
    Quite true,imagine 0.1 of 1 watt effective radiated power,ie 1/10 of 1 watt how could you hope to get a decent signal with that erp level,that is all the power they are allowed to run,What a joke


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    Fuzzy Clam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,293 ✭✭✭Fuzzy Clam


    turbocab wrote: »
    Quite true,imagine 0.1 of 1 watt effective radiated power,ie 1/10 of 1 watt how could you hope to get a decent signal with that erp level,that is all the power they are allowed to run,What a joke

    Some community stations are allowed ERPs up to nearly 100 watts.


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