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In Reply to: RE: Wife Anti-Audiophile Act 2009(WAAA2009) posted by DanWKW on July 01, 2009 at 04:04:09

Tiny antennas for FM are just NOT going to happen, the wavelength of a signal at 98Mhz is 3 metres long. But there is an antenna type that you can build for a few bucks, that for FM wavelengths can be pinned to the ceiling, or hidden under a rug, a room sized rug.
Ask me via email and I will send you the "wire rhombic article" from Audio mag.
when you have read it, ...... you should be aware that it will depend on the orientation of each of your rooms two diagonals to the axes from there to the transmitters you want to receive. FM just IS directional. We can discuss, and kick it around, too. You should be able to build a couple or three pinned to your ceiling/s*. Hard to notice, or object to!
With a wire rhombic you can have very good results and if you build a couple and spread them you might be able to get most of what you want.
You do know where the transmitters you WANT are?
And, ..... given that some total weiners around here call me the antenna Nazi, you did VERY well indeed! {;-)}! I'm an Aussie, and not prone to the response that turneth away wrath.
If your wife LIKES FM, ...... an easily hidden indoor antenna - or a couple or three - that pisses all over anything else indoor, might just be saleable.
OR if she entirely HATES your hobby, you might not tell her at all, she may never look up. You're not prone to giving her one - prone - in the listening room, are yer, maaate?!
I am fortunate that my wife loves music.
Before I married her, Trisha encouraged me to 'get a moving coil', having heard a well set up* Denon 103S at a mate's place. Note that I was at the time running a Garrotted V15/III in a SME 3009/SII detachable shell arm - with MF polystyrene loading capacitors and MF 1/2 watt resistors to give the correct 47kohm/~450pf load.
* by me ;-)!

Warmest

Timbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio Scrounger

And gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!

'Still not saluting.'

http://www.theanalogdept.com/tim_bailey.htm

Edits: 07/01/09

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