[Xastir] System cost options

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Alex Carver wrote:

> > My feeling is that 300mW isn't enough in the woods.
>
> Well, my point wasn't that the 300mW is great, but
> that the ability to replace the antenna with something
> better is a greater improvement over the fixed rubber
> antenna on the Rino.

Agreed.  _Perhaps_ one could make a tracker work with 300mW or so in
some cases, but replacing the antenna with something better that
didn't use the human as the ground plane and worked better than a
dummy load would certainly be the first step.  ;-)

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