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In Reply to: RE: I just received my Yagi antenna posted by jedrider on February 15, 2014 at 19:48:15
lol - it better work OK or your wife may be asking you to remove the eyesore! Really, though, I hope the installation went smoothly and that you now have the good FM signals you were hoping for.
The Audiolab tuners do look nice and get good reviews, too, but there are no distributors here in the USA - and they're above my budget. :-)
Holly
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Well, it doesn't look quite as bad as I thought it would. However, if I add just one more antenna, the neighborhood will think I've become a police station outpost!
Anyway, the results are mixed. Some stations come in better and other stations come in worst. On the whole, the signal becomes more dimensional. Really wish I had a button for antenna A or antenna B.
I also have a Parasound tuner which always got mixed reviews. I really think that tuner design is largely recycled, so I wonder if nowadays there is really that much variation anymore, although receivers of the 80s, for instance, probably had some really good tuner sections that I suspect is gone now. The Parasound did better on the simple whip antenna.
My new opinion is cheap tuner, cheap antenna, or better tuner, better antenna is the way to go. A really good antenna on a bad tuner seems to overload it too easily, AFAIK or can surmise.
It is called a directional antenna for a reason - its design. It gets its gain by being directional, and that feature also minimises multi-path from any station it is pointed at.I'm reasonably confident I use the term directional - and explain it - in all my posts.
You probably need a rotator, so you can aim it where you want.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 02/20/14
That's about how quickly I can jump on the roof and spin the antenna around. It doesn't work so well at night, though, as I am prone to run into the rake sitting outside, among other obstacles.
I have an antenna switch on order, though, to switch between directional and Omni-directional antenna.
Sorry you had mixed results with your new antenna. :-( Is there any burn in with antenna's? lol - probably not, but maybe there is some 'fine tuning' that you could do to fix the signals that are worse than they were.
I am kind of in the "cheap tuner, cheap antenna" camp right now, simply because that is what I can afford. FM radio is not the main focus of my 2-channel system, but I am hopeful I can get something decent for my small budget.
Holly
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