I’m on 30 meters doing FT8 this morning and using 10 watts on my iCom 7100 attached to a IT-100 tuner and home-brew EFHW for 40-10.
My signals are getting out on 10 watts (and coming in as well). I’ve pounced on a few QSOs in a few minutes without any re-transmissions required.
73,
ae0rs