Remember, also, that in addition to an external antenna jack, which means
the radio was specifically designed with the idea that it might be used with
an external antenna, the Satellit 700 also had that manually adjustable RF
gain control to deal with any possible front-end overloading of the antenna.

Based on my experiences with more than one each sample of Grundig Satellit
700, Satellit 500, Satellit 400, Sony ICF-2010 and ICF2001, Sangeans
ATS-803A, ATS-390 and their Radio Shack brand equivallents, and Philips
D-2999, and Panasonic RF-3100, RF-2900 RF-4900, and RFB-600, I would rate
the Satellit 700 to be the best of that entire lot for receiver performance,
ability to handle external noise interference, and audio quality. On some
bands, it might be only marginally better than some of the other models
mentioned. I don't think you'd have to worry about damaging a Satellit 700
by hooking up any length of antenna to its external antenna jack, or even by
clipping a long wire antenna lead directly to its telescopic whip antenna,
as long as you observe that already mentioned caveat about lightning, etc.

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Brent Reynolds, Atlanta, GA USA