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Because antenna gain is a function of both the transmitter and receiver, and detection is different from getting a high-quality signal. Most high-power radio signals on earth are aimed at transmitting to fairly low power, small, cheap devices which need to recover a good amount of information from the signal. This is very different from the requirements of a radio telescope (which has a gain many orders of magnitude higher because it has a much larger space, power, and cost budget) detecting a signal (which requires far lower signal-to-noise than reconstructing something high quality from it).