Did he spend anything on acoustic treatment. That's probably actually the best bang for his buck. 

Scott

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On 19/06/2014, at 12:22 PM, Colin McDonald <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> exactly Scott, it's not being done on the cheap, but you refered to using 
> the absolute worst possible coaxial cable for your antennas which basically 
> renders the entire very expensive system down to something far less than it 
> should be if proper feed line is used.
> RG58 has to be about the worst coax you can find, short of rg174, for UHF 
> frequencies, especially the upper UHF spectrum.
> However, this is a classic case that I see so very often in the audio 
> world...vast amounts of money are spent on connecters, and equipment, and 
> then they use a 3 dollar cable to connect it all lol.
> 10K for a wireless receiver and transmitter, probably another 3K for a 
> microphone, and then a run of rg58 costing around 20 bucks for possibly the 
> most important part of the whole system, the receiving antenna.
> 
> I have a friend, and this is slightly off topic, who spends a great deal of 
> money and time going after the best of the best in connecters, cables, tubes 
> and components for his home stereo system.  He's spent thousands and 
> thousands on interconnect cables.  Gold, real gold, plated connecters and 
> pure gold coated jumper cables and on and on. He's gone so far as to put 
> special electrical outlets, with massive oxygen free cryogenically treated 
> copper power cables to connect his system to...and it all plugs into regular 
> good old 12 gage normal everyday copper house hold wire, which then runs 
> probably 120 feet to the breaker pannel lol.  I laughed a great deal when he 
> told me he had just spent $1000 on a new audiophile electrical outlet, new 
> monster cable...when I mentioned the whole concept of everything being 
> plugged into a pair of 12 gage copper wires he didn't want to admit that 
> it's all snake oil.
> 
> anywya, my point is don't cheap out on the most important parts of your 
> system such as feed line, and connecters etc.
> 
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
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> From: "Scott Gillen" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 5:33 PM
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Replacing my coax cable
> 
>> I don't think we can be accused of doing this on the cheep. Looking at 
>> spend=
>