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5w vs. 50w

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When someone is wrong on the internet, even if it is the most minute detail...

Consider that the entire thread is predicated on a specific technical question. Then consider that a response to that question is fundementally wrong, or at best is incomplete and misleading. At that point, its not really picking nits on a minute detail. Is it?
 

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...signals from low lying areas will knife edge scatter off the sharp rocky mountains out of the basin into the outlying desert areas where the high mountain top sites do not scatter as well off the distant mountains...

And relating this back to the OP's original question, that 10dB difference, in this case, could make the difference between a signal barely strong enough to hold the squelch open, and have enough quieting to be at least communications quality. So, to wrap up the big point I was trying to make, YES, there is a VERY SUBSTANTIAL difference in range and coverage between 5 and 50 watts.
 
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