Was unhappy to discover when hooking up the Avo that not only does the
cable have just copper-coated-steel inner conductor, but that the outer
braid over the foil can't be soldered because it is (I think) aluminium
braid.
Which sounds to me like an accident waiting to happen.

I think you'll find most all the cable TV nets in the UK use ally foil
cables there not quite as bad as you might think terminated properly..
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Tony Sayer