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by NovemberWhiskey 992 days ago
I actually updated my post about the same time you wrote this response; I was just considering free-space path loss, which is not where most of the loss is in typical ham scenarios. Most of the 5W in the case you described is getting lost in a terrible compromise antenna, then due to line of sight effects (assuming that the user is not standing on a hill or something) and multipath.