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In Reply to: RE: Indoor antennas posted by OakIris on February 26, 2014 at 14:32:29
If multipath rather than week stations is your problem, then a BIC Beambox might do the trick. They are getting tougher to find because it has been a while since they made them, but when you do find them, they are dirt cheap. I think I paid $2 for mine. I don't think they even knew what it was at the thrift store.
Dave
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If I could find one for that price, I would buy one too!
I don't know what sort of problems with reception my tuner will have because I don't have the tuner yet. I think I am going about this backwards - I need to get the tuner first and then see what sort of antenna I will need according to what problems the tuner does or does not have with picking up the stations I want. lol - that would help me with knowing what antenna connections I have to work with, too.
I still want to find out what my options are, though, so thank you for the information about the BIC and its ability to sort out multipath issues.
Holly
I don't think you are at all. The best tuner in the world will always benefit from a better antenna, one which is capable of de-tuning multipath.
That being said, get yourself the rabbit ears ($9 on Amazon) and you'll have an adjustable (easier than a dipole on a stick, I would say) antenna to use when you finally score a tuner. You can always upgrade the antenna at your leisure.
And unless money is very tight, you should be able to find some very good tuners for very little money. I found a Yamaha T-80 tuner for $35. While not my best sounding tuner, it's got great RF performance, and the ability to fine tune stations. If that's not enough for you, it's great for breaking in (if you believe in such things) interconnects and tone-arm wire!
Good luck.
Thank you for the encouragement, 1973shovel. I think I can get the rabbit ears locally - Best Buy even carries a promising version - and a very nice fellow-inmate is going to send me some tuners for me to audition in my system, so I may be giving a tuner its forever home soon! :-D
Holly
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