Xandra Granade 🏳️⚧️ on Nostr: For example, one watt is 1,000 times bigger than a milliwatt. That means that I can ...
For example, one watt is 1,000 times bigger than a milliwatt. That means that I can tell you to start with a milliwatt, and make it bigger by 30 dB (since 10³ = 1,000).
That convention is handy enough it often just gets written as "dBm" meaning decibels referenced to milliwatts. You may have even seen dBm listed on your phone as a kind of signal strength.
That convention is handy enough it often just gets written as "dBm" meaning decibels referenced to milliwatts. You may have even seen dBm listed on your phone as a kind of signal strength.