Understanding decibels
by Thomas from The SWLing Post on (#4X621)
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Marty, who shares the following article from Nuts and Volts magazine-a primer on decibels: The "dee-bee" is everywhere in ham radio, and is used for characterizing everything from antenna performance to nano-sized signals. Learn the decibel (abbreviated as lower-case 'd' followed by an upper-case 'B' or 'dB') and you ["]