On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 01:03:44 -0600, clifto wrote:

David wrote:
There's no electrical reason to use anything thicker than RG-58/U for
HF receiving.

I'll agree with that for short runs, but RG-8X is only slightly larger in
diameter and less than half the loss per foot.
That's flat out factually inaccurate.

http://users.erols.com/rfc/attenrat.htm#RG8MINIX