Redigoogle <redicliff@yahoo.com> wrote in news:b949a81c-9847-4e7b-
be73-b3c3b779f79a@y22g2000prd.googlegroups.com:

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> How did you discover it?
> What is the wattage of a handheld V3?
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> Thanks
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I noticed how long the little battery lasted, compared to the daily
charging routines of my bagphones. Then, I called a ham radio op
I've known for 25 years who is a wheel at Motorola and asked him.

Different carriers set different power limits in their system
software depending on which mode and band you're using. But, the
actual difference between 150 and 200 mw isn't significant. Double
the power is only 3db....hard to measure in the noise.

Max power is hardly ever transmitted. Multiuser systems, like
Sellular, depend on relatively level signals at the receiver, so, the
system adjusts your transmitter on the fly to level you with other
users. On cell fringes, more urgent matters like multipath
interference cause you to crash....