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Using Internet Coaxial Connection as Tuner Antenna

Hi!
Way back when I was a sophmore at Heidelberg College in Tiffin Ohio (1984-1985), I plugged my radio antenna into the cable coaxial protruding from the wall and was instantly able to pick up Detroit Wheels and stations from Windsor Canada. Mind you, these stations were at least 100 miles or so away and I did this with a radio and not a receiver or a tuner. I now have a Magnum Dynalab tuner and a PS Audio Power Station and have been cogitating over whether or not I should place a splitter on the power station and then run 1 coaxial to my internet modem and 1 coaxial to my antenna input on the tuner? Right now I'm using the Magnum Dynalab ST-2 antenna inside the 2nd floor apartment window. Come on, there have to be others who have done this.
Thanks,
Goofyfoot
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goofyfoot OP
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Thanks Sean,
Much appreciated advice as your comments add a perspective that's obviously founded upon practical sense. I'll seek out other antenna options.
unsound
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Might I suggest that you don't put a fork in the toaster.:-)
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Sure enough, cheap thrills no longer interest me.
chadnliz
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The main reason you heard stations at such distance. is because of where you were. Tiffin isnt very far south and Canada broadcasts stations at double the power of USA radio stations. In western Cleveland you can easily pick up 89x out of Windsor only failing to pick it up when John Carrol University radio station simply over powers it.
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Yes, this is a valid point. I'm in Cincinnati now and wanted to pick up a station in Dayton and in Yellow Springs but cannot with a dipole antenna. Tiffin to Detroit would be more than the distance between Cincinnati to Dayton. As stated initially, I did this as a sophomore in college which was 1984 and so my assumption is that various factors back then could have been different from today, i.e radio signal compression
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