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EFFECTIVE RADIATED
POWER ERP
CHART
Use this handy erp chart and information to estimate your
pure ERP and have a bit of fun in the process!
EXAMPLE: Your running 100 watts into a 6 db
gain antenna with no losses anywhere in your antenna system. Whats
your ERP? Refer to the chart below.
Antenna Gain (dBd) |
100 Watts Input (Rounded) |
1 |
126 |
2 |
158 |
3 |
199 |
4 |
251 |
5 |
316 |
6 |
398 |
7 |
501 |
8 |
631 |
9 |
794 |
10 |
1000 |
11 |
1259 |
12 |
1585 |
13 |
1995 |
14 |
2512 |
15 |
3162 |
16 |
3981 |
17 |
5112 |
18 |
6310 |
19 |
7943 |
20 |
10,000 |
(Note that these numbers assume no loss in feedline or
antenna AND USED theCSG Calculator)
You will always have some bit of loss but this calculator is
considering only power and antenna
gain.
We are using 100 watts power output into the
antenna as an example. Go down the left column and find the gain
of your antenna. (6) This would be 6 dbd in our
example. Using the chart, read across to the right of the column from
"6" and find your answer of 398 watts ERP! These figures are
assuming that you are getting 100 watts to the antenna from the end of
your feedline and do not reflect any loss in it or the
antenna and you know the exact gain figures for the
antenna.
You should see by using the chart that with every 3db
increase, your effectively doubling the
ERP.
HERE'S ANOTHER GOOD...... SIMPLE
EXAMPLE (With a bit of Ham Humor thrown
in)
100 watts into a 3db gain, 2 meter 5/8 wave mag mount on
the roof of your mobile. It's a Ford, built in 1994, V8
engine, automatic transmission, one crack in the windshield with
198,000 miles on it and you still owe 18 payments of $287.57 after
refinancing a year ago.
The oil needs changing and it has 4 new
tires and you discover the battery is dead!
To Calculate the
correct ERP answer you realize you wanted to replace the battery anyway
so you can check your power output into your antenna with your watt
meter to make sure your rig is putting out that 100 watt signal to the
antenna.
During the process of finding and replacing the battery
with a new one, you have spent 4 hours finding a ride, getting past the
crowds at Wally World to buy the battery, getting back home, finding the
right tools but you can't find them because you loaned them to your
teenage son for bike repair, disturbing your neighbor to borrow his
tools, helping him take his grill outside, (his tools were burried under
it in his garage), opening the hood or your car, ripping the water hose
trying to take it off so you could install the battery, destroying the
battery clamps, mashing your fingers, cutting your hand, asking your
neighbor to take you back to Wally World to get new clamps, water hose,
and antifreeze, discovering that you spent all your cash for the new
battery, going to the bank, driveup out of order, standing in a long line
to get cash from your account, back to Wally World and the auto parts
store, getting the new parts, installing them, cranking the Ford, only to
discover that the XYL ran it out of gas, borrowing a gas can from your
neighbor, walking to the gas station around the corner, walking back in
the summer sun (110 degrees), putting the gas in, starting the car,
closing the hood and discovering that you did not tighten the hose on the
bottom of the radiator that you just installed, new antifreeze spewing all
over the new battery, smoke pours out of the alternator, sparks fly and
the engine dies!
You throw up your hands, call a wrecker, wait and
wait, get it towed to your friendly auto repair shop and after a
grand total of $487.50 and 3 hours later, not counting the cost of
the battery, parts and gas..... you get in the car which is now back home,
it now starts, you fire up the rig, key the microphone and watch the power
meter.............no
output! Is Ham Radio Fun or
What!
NOW BACK TO THAT SIMPLE EXAMPLE
100 watts verified on a
repaired 2 meter rig ($187.50 after waiting 3 weeks for repair!). Your
antenna gain (on the F-o-r-d) of 3 db..........
Read down the chart
in left column, find 3db.........then look in the right
column..... Your 100 watts going to that 3db gain antenna sitting
on top of that............Ford! = 199 watts ERP!
Just think about how much gain that would have
been on a Chevy! (200 watts!!!!) So after spending
$675.00 total (to check your erp), not counting your time, you
decide to trade that F-O-R-D for a Chevy for one more watt out! Man
what a bargin and that extra watt should really bust the 2 meter repeater
receivers everywhere!
As you think about that new Chevy......like a blast from a
train horn, you hear the wife call your name in a not so friendly tone of
voice......CRAP! I should have never gotten out of bed
today~!
73!
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