"Richard Clark" wrote in message
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Perhaps I should more blunt, but the quote I lifted only speaks to two
things: an antenna, and a claim for its signal to noise ratio.

60 dB ??????????????

Originally I almost added something like, "(assume you're standing next to the
transmitter)" :-)

60dB+ isn't unheard of for hilltop-to-hilltop microwave links though, is it?
And one might obtain 50dB with regular TV antennas if they have a good
line-of-sight to the transmitter and there aren't significant reflections,
right?