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I just bought a Tandberg 2020. I need to add an inexpensive 75 Ohm antenna, but I can't figure out what it takes by looking at it. I see some 75 Ohm dipole antennas with a "male" or "female" connector, but I also see some that have two connectors and come with a 75Ohm adapter. trying to figure out what hind of dipole antenna plugs into the back antenna input. Any help appreciated.
When one sings, one prays twice.
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If you have old school car radio antenna jack.
Edits: 07/03/16 07/03/16
The picture I saw of one clearly states it has inputs for both 75 and 300 ohm antennas. Second are you putting up a good outdoor antenna or are you compromising with something indoors? If indoor start with a set of rabbit ears. As you will need to point the antenna differently depending on the station at least rabbit ears can hold a position unlike a wire dipole antenna. They work fine. On the other hand nobody every flopped a wire dipole on the floor for their TV. That's because it would suck. So don't do it for FM radio.ET
Edits: 07/02/16
The Tandberg 1020 does not have standard inputs for both 75 and 300 ohm antennas see my photo above.
The Tandberg 1020A does have inputs for both 75 and 300 ohm antennas (no doubt for export).
The original poster says he has a Tandberg 1020.
The thread is entitled Tanberg 2020 and he again says 2020 in the body of the message. So what's up? Regardless everything else still stands.
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No, please read the entire thread. I pointed out to him that the Orion Audio Blue Book did not list a Tandberg 2020. He then corrected the model number to a 1020. Tandberg made a 1020 & 1020A. The 1020 has the weird antenna inputs you see in my photo in the earlier post. The later model 1020A has the normal 75 & 300 ohm inputs found in the USA. The OP has the 1020.
He's new here and apparently doesn't know how to edit his post.
Link below.
Oh I didn't read all the rep!ies in the thread. Thanks for straightening that out.
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The thread is entitled Tanberg 2020 and he again says 2020 in the body of the message. So what's up?
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This is really a $2 thrift store item. That will tell you what you are dealing with in terms of reception. You may then be happy with the dipole OR a Terk OR you may find stations that will need the help of a larger OR just better positioned antenna. You will probably have only a few stations that you really care about and you should concentrate on getting those to be received clearly.
The OP's problem is not what type of antenna will work, dipole, roof mount, active, etc., it is attaching it to the Tandberg's unconventional antenna jack inputs. Take a look at the photo I posted earlier of the rear panel of the receiver for the two ways to attach it, neither are standard mounts.
Yeah. It looks like an automobile jack. Probably eBay would get you something like that or Pep Boys auto store.
Give one of these a shot. I use it on one of my tuners and it works fine. It can be had on Ebay for about 15 bucks!
The more valid question is "which antenna for these stations, in these directions and distances, from where I live?"You need an antenna - and a place for it - which will provide a signal with low multi-path and full limiting on all desired stations. This is the only way to maximise ROInvestment in a tuner.
Most signal strength indicators on most tuners are designed to sell tuners. And not to provide and accurate guide to variations in signal strength by station where you live.
Even with an external multi-element directional high-gain antenna - that can be pointed at each station via a rotor - it is IME almost impossible to cause overload.
The right antenna can be more important than which tuner.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 07/01/16
Thanks,Tim. I hear what you're saying and I just learned something valuable from your post. That said, I live in a small condo with no balcony and no access to the roof. I"m afraid that I'm going to have to go with one of those t-shaped dipole antennas. Alternate ideas welcome. Note: I am also on a budget.
When one sings, one prays twice.
Those t shaped dipoles can work amazingly well, especially if you make them rotatable. They are directional (figure 8 pattern). I mounted mine on a vertical wooden Dowell with another horizontal Dowell supporting the dipole at the top. I rotate it for maximum signal strength.7
?It depends, on all the factors I mentioned, doesn't it?
An antenna is as important to any FM radio as sights are to any gun, no?
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 07/09/16
Depends on if his favorite stations are strong nearby ones or distant. If they are strong signals, a piece of wire about 2 meters long would do. Choose solid wire gauge so the stripped end will plug into that connector.
Have a read of the article - click on it - and get back to me.
This is the only indoor FM antenna that can give similar distance and gain performance to an outdoor boom type FM antenna, and it is DIY and thus cheap.
Depends - almost entirely - on how important good FM is to you (and yours).
You will need to know on the map where your desired stations are, and draw rough bearings from them to where you are on the map.
You might get lucky and be able to DIY a rhombic that can get most of them within its beam-width. There's a spread rhombic with a wider beam - in the article - as well.
FM Fool is a US website that will help with that and get you an estimate of each one's signal strength. I live in Australia and all my desired stations are on one big high tower on a large hill, I live in a house so I can have a proper long-boom antenna.
Sing? I'm a singer, since 1960, I was nine when I joined the local Anglican cathedral choir.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
I can't find a Tandberg 2020 in the Orion Audio Blue Book, are you sure you posted the complete and correct model number?
My bad. The model # is Tandberg 1020.
When one sings, one prays twice.
Well, those are unusual antenna inputs, it seems the later model the 1020A has more conventional inputs. On yours the input just above the word "aerials" looks like an old automobile antenna jack. Maybe pickup an old car antenna and see if the end fits and maybe that will work for you. If not maybe you could splice a dipole or any other type into the male end. The other input jack to the right looks proprietary and might be tough to source, however you might be able to jam the wires in like the photo.
Do you think something like this would work? I just saw it on eBay.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/111939694566?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
When one sings, one prays twice.
No, that is not the correct adapter, that is a 300 ohm to 70 ohm coax. adapter. I think you might need something like the male plug in the link below. You have to splice your dipole into the female end somehow or cut it off and splice it that way.
If I had to speculate, I'm betting the receiver has some sort of a PAL antenna connector.But rather than guess, the original poster should take a close-up picture of the back of his receiver so the Asylum can take a close look.
PALs come in both male and female versions, or it may not even be PAL, but there's no sense having him buy something which will do him no good.
Edits: 07/02/16
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