>Hehe. I just restored an old valved radio to life.
...
>It is more sensitive with its 4 valves (some are
>double) than the ICF-SW11

Is it actually more sensitive, or just appears so because of lower
selectivity?

I do remember a ham guy deriding other ham guys who were claiming the "band
was alive tonight" because they could sense all sorts of signals due to lack
of bandwidth selectivity and low image rejection.

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