Jeff wrote in
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Lostgallifreyan wrote:
Jeff wrote in
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It seems very strange that you are taking things to the ultimate when
considering coax cable, whilst considering using a very inferior
portable radio for your reception!!


Not really. A few tens of metres of cable whose cost is not more than 3
times the cheapest of satellite coaxes, and whose total cost is less
than half the lowest cost of that radio when found second-hand, is
hardly overdoing it.

I think the point is that radio is very much under-doing it!!!


Why are you so set against that radio? A lot of people like it (some of them
enough to modify it rather than replace it). What do you recommend? And how
much would it cost? This thread wasn't about that radio but this is worth
pursuing, you seem to have a strong feeling about it. I just bought it
because it seemed like a good cheap base to start from. (Not cheap if I'd had
to buy new, but I purposely avoided that).