‰ NOW 13 WPM ‰ TEXT IS FROM AUGUST 2019 QST PAGE 41 ‰ PERCENTAGE OF CLASS MHW AND LOM BEACONS 71. IN OTHER WORDS, WITH SOME EXCEPTIONS, HEARING A BEACON WITH CLASS CODE MHW OR LOM SAYS YOU PROBABLY ARE HEARING A 25 OR 10 W SIGNAL. WHAT IF, BY SOME CHANGE IN RULES, WE WERE ABLE TO RUN HIGHER POWER? FIGURE 3 PLOTS THE AVERAGE DISTANCE ACHIEVED BY BEACONS RUNNING FROM 10 TO 2,000 W. THE GREATEST JUMP IN DISTANCE WAS INCREASING POWER FROM 10 TO 150 W. GOING FROM 251 400 W TO 1,001 2,000 W ALSO RESULTED IN STEP WISE INCREASES IN DISTANCE, BUT NONE AS DRAMATIC AS ƒ QST DE W1AW ‰ FROM 10 TO 150 W. DISTANCE VERSUS ELEVATION SITE ELEVATIONS OF BEACONS WERE TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM AERONAUTICAL DATA SOURCES. IF NOT LISTED, ELEVATION TO THE NEAREST RUNWAY, AIRPORT, OR CITY WAS USED. ELEVATIONS VARIED ON DIFFERENT WEBSITES BY NOMINAL DIFFERENCES, USUALLY ON THE ORDER OF A FEW FEET. THE HIGHEST ELEVATION OF A BEACON WAS 8,428 FEET IN COLOMBIA AND THE MINIMUM WAS 0 FEET A CANADIAN COAST GUARD CUTTER ON DUTY ‰ END OF 13 WPM TEXT ‰ QST DE W1AW ƒ