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In Reply to: RE: which antenna for Tandberg 2020? posted by phil100a@hotmail.com on July 01, 2016 at 16:38:51
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: 07/01/16Follow Ups:
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
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