the best three for FM in the Philadelphia are are in order: The FanFair (non powered 6ft whip, can be stood or lain) the Turk or the Parcect. CCrane probably has a good FMAntenna as well.
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Tom Fowle wrote: > the F.M. antenna question, yes, there should be a number of antennas > that will do better than what was supplied with the center. > Depends on how far you are from broadcast stations, and whether you can run > coax outside to a high point like roof. > If you're in an apartment and can spend a little money, but can't go > outdoors,a so-called active F.M. antenna is a good bet. These are small and > intended to be on a table or shelf. They need power and are a small antenna > with a preamplifier in them. Radio shlock should make one. > > Shlock should also make an outdoor antenna that would be mounted on a small > mast on the roof, but this requires running coaxial cable out and up. > > If you can get T.V. rabbit ears with 75 ohm output, a round cable not flat > twin lead, they may do better, but will probably need fiddling with to get > best results. > > There are gizmos that actually hook the power lines to the antenna > connection and use the random wire lengths as an antenna, but they don't > work unless you're > close to the transmitters, ant not well even then. > > There are also so-called folded dipoles, looks like a capital T made of > twinlead. these can be put atop a curtain rod or some such, but require a > 300 ohm to 75 ohm matching transformer to work with your center. > > Just a brief intro, more when we have a better idea how much you need, > and/or how much fuss you want to go too. > >
