Radio Road: A challenge! YOU put an 'aimed'* rhombic wire antenna on your ceiling - after you get the article from me! by Timbo in Oz

Radio Road: A challenge! YOU put an 'aimed'* rhombic wire antenna on your ceiling - after you get the article from me! by Timbo in Oz

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A challenge! YOU put an 'aimed'* rhombic wire antenna on your ceiling - after you get the article from me!

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Timbo in Oz

In Reply to: Here's the reason.... posted by Ned on August 30, 2008 at 13:20:15:

*? Pointed at just ONE desired station, and then tell us how much better it sounds sans multipath. Which all your signals will be full of, using the whip at least!

Sooo, what is antenna two?!

I'm NOT expecting that you won't hear a difference.

Why so? Multipath, even when not directly OR grossly audible - like it can be in the car, esp. in a city! - STILL raises TND and veils nuance and expression. Even switching to mono doesn't always help, either. So, eliminating it as a potential factor can turn FM from a basic background wallpaper source into a high-end source, if the station is good enough.

A rhombic is almost undetectable, by wimmin, once up ON the ceiling
[just don't do it on the carpet anymore MAAAATE! ;-)!.]

Given big-enough* room/s, and some luck on the orientation of your *suitable rooms, they can even outperform your common Yagi because they get quite long sides. You can use single white insulated wires OR use TV ribbon (and paint it) which doubles the gain.

I know that there are only a very few truly GOOD sounding stations in the USA, at least in SF where I was for 9 days and Baltimore where I was for 11 days a year later. I still have the Headroom 'Traveller' pack, an int'l radio-walkman, and CD-man, and carried a rolled up T-tenna, thumb tacks and blu-tak.

I now realise it should have been a rhombic!

Me???!!! a perfectionist!? ;-)!!!

Warmest
Timbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio Scrounger
And gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
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