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In Reply to: RE: What can I do to optimize my antenna? posted by sberger on September 04, 2013 at 21:57:16
They used to make antenna rotors - motor drives that would allow you to rotate the antenna to a specific direction/station - I might look for one of those and install it - depending on where in No. Calif. you are, you may not be able to 'split the difference' between all the station you are interested in -
I have that challenge in SF....
Happy tuning - and be safe on the roof...
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Yeah I'm thinking that I'll probably just have to settle on certain stations but I'll give it a shot manually and see what happens. Perhaps it will help strengthen some of the stations I'm already receiving. I'd like to get KALX but wouldn't want to give up any of the stations I can already get so we'll see. I figure a good jazz station, a good classical station, a couple good public radio stations I'm pretty much good to go. Anything else that I need I'll just use my Squeezebox.
sberger-
Hit the FM FOOL website and get the polar chart - it will help and then you can try to split the difference -
If your getting KALX - then you can almost see the bay - and it will now depend upon how close KALX is to the other transmitters.
I can get KPOO, KPFA, KALW, KCSM, KOSC, KQED and occasionally KALX at home - but I need to upgrade the antenna so that I can get all in stereo at good strength...
I'm in Oakland on the San Leandro border. I get pretty much every station you noted(also KDFC quite strongly, which was not the case before hooking into the antenna) including KPOO very strongly, which was a shock given where it is and where I'm at, and how small it is. I can also get KCEA, big band radio on the Menlo/Atherton High School campus. Stanford radio weakly as well. But no KALX at all.
Per an earlier recommendation I did look at FM FOOL and so it seems that if I want KALX I'm going to knock off a bunch of other stations. As I don't want to do that, I'll live with streaming it if I want it badly enough.
You have an advantage of being east of the bay - and having the bay r'bounce' a lot of signals to you - yes KALX would be turning off other stations-
the other alternative would be to locate a second antenna - away from the first so that there is no shaping or limiting of the first's abilities - and aim it to the north for KALX then have a switch on the incoming 75 Ohm cable before the tuner - so you use different antennas for different station groups...not Ideal, but could work
Otherwise stream - and then you can get KUSF also...
Happy tuning
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