> But for a curious hacker getting at the internals of how something works, the first instinct is to turn it up. That's their learning path. It's natural curios

> But for a curious hacker getting at the internals of how something works, the first instinct is to turn it up. That's their learning path. It's natural curiosity. More must be better. Louder must be better. If you increase the TXpower way beyond the P1dB of your PA, you will introduce distorsion and therefore harmonics beyond your operating band (i.e. you can end up disturbing RF services other than wi-fi, possibly safety-critical services). https://www.everythingrf.com/community/what-is-p1db https://www.everythingrf.com/community/what-is-p1db => Don't do that !