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Old January 12th 05, 03:06 AM
GeorgeB
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:21:38 -0800, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

What you recommended was a howitzer to kill an ant. Showing how and why 300
dB is a meaningless number is meaningless to somebody who doesn't have a
concept of how impossible that is to measure.


Aw Jim, 0.1 microvolt to 1 Megavolt is "only" 260 dB ... g ...
assuming 50 ohms, that is good receiver sensitivity vs 20 Gigawatt ...
we have Gigahertz, why not Gigawatt ... OH, you mean that a large
power plant turbine-generator is on the order of a Gigawatt ... OH ...

Methinks he doesn't understand large (and small) numbers ...