"User" wrote in message
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THE RG 58 IS FINE BELOW 500 MHZ


So its the antenna then? Because reception in the bands I listen to
(130-175mhz) is no better than a paperclip indoors....

As a ham operator I can tell you that up to 450 Mhz and under 20 feet of
coax you will not notice any big differance in the coax. I have been
operating the 144 and 440 Mhz bands for over 25 years and that is all I used
tuil I installed a new antenna a while back. Almost all the antennas use the
rg-58 mobile. I did switch to the rg-8x and put a piece about a foot long
of some rg-174 (the very small stuff) to get out of the trunk to the
antenna. That still does not make any noticable differance.