I don't get your point. Is it that the Apollo should've been able to directly dial the mid-way station gate without needing any extra power other than the DHD already provides and since they were just sending radio signals along it wouldn't use as much power as if you were sending people through? The problem is that we know that what drains power is not the act of sending things through the wormhole, but the actual wormhole being active. The longer the distance of a wormhole, the more power is required to sustain it. Thus, in Letters to Pegasus, Rodney was able to make a connection to the Earth Stargate for 1.3 seconds without a ZPM (sending a data burst was possible since it travels through the wormhole faster than a person - a person would've been a fraction of the way through when the wormhole cut off). A ZPM simply would've kept it opened longer.
Under the same conditions the Apollo should've been able to dial the midway station for only about 2.6 seconds since it's about half the distance and the intergalactic bridge is designed so each gate is just far enough away from each other so a stable connection can be made with the power that they each have at hand. The problem is that Mckay had to really push all their naqahdah generators to the limits to get that brief connection. Where as the Apollo had a long back and forth conversation with Sam which should not have been at all possible.
Under the same conditions the Apollo should've been able to dial the midway station for only about 2.6 seconds since it's about half the distance and the intergalactic bridge is designed so each gate is just far enough away from each other so a stable connection can be made with the power that they each have at hand. The problem is that Mckay had to really push all their naqahdah generators to the limits to get that brief connection. Where as the Apollo had a long back and forth conversation with Sam which should not have been at all possible.
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