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In Reply to: RE: Kenwood KT-8300 posted by Todd A. on December 21, 2014 at 09:30:43
Todd,
Before you decide on an antenna, use a map and FMFool to find the bearings of the transmitter/s for each station you are going to bother with. (I'd expect there'd be lots you wont bother with. )
Only then will you know if an omni will do the job.
IF many are within say a 30 degree arc then a directional antenna (with gain) may be feasible. Even two?! pointed at relevant clusters of bearings.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
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Looks like a good resource, Timbo - thank you.
Realistically, 95% or more of my listening is to one station - KSJR-FM, which is the classical Minnesota Public Radio station located about 11 miles away. FMFool shows it as requiring a 48' antenna for LOS reception, but realistically, I get perfectly acceptable reception with a mere dipole antenna only 4' above ground level. When I'm looking to broaden my horizons, I generally turn to the limitless dessert menu offered by the Cambridge. The audio quality isn't even close to the Kenwood, but it's sometimes nice to turn on a good blues station that simply wouldn't be an option on the FM.
;-)I don't have any big problems here in Canberra, almost all FM stations are transmitted from Black Mountain Tower, see below, as is TV. All the ones I am interested in, as well, there are really only two.
But Canberra is very hilly, being within the Great Diving Range. So we need a good tight pattern, although gain isn't a big issue.The antenna array is aimed at Black Mountain for TV as well.
The whole thing currently needs work, mostly due to the age* of the short runs from each antenna to the FUBA (German) UHF:VHF:FM combiner, also on the mast.
I built the mast, from heavy scrounged thick-wall tubing, back in the '90s*nearly broke. Ought to replace it, with a thin-wall antenna mast.
Maybe when it is all done I will write it up. ? ;-)!
Need to reconnect the AM random wire antenna, too!!!! It used to run over to a good neighbour's chimney! It's tuned by a vane cap and a tapped coil. Why bother? We still have wide audio bandwidth AM down here.
Got a good novel for Xmas, Man Booker Prize 2014. Richard Flanagan's "The Road to the Deep North". But I have 7 books going currently, though.
Just got the 'new' PC back so I've been down the tunnel / rat-hole too much. Should go outside under the deck and read.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 12/27/14
I don't think that "AM" is used for much other than talk radio in the US these days...
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