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Setting up an amateur radio station

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  • #32
    end of the road
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,640 ✭✭✭✭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

    I'm very highly educated. I know words, i have the best words, nobody has better words then me.



  • #33
    turbocab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 239 ✭✭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


  • #34
    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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