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In Reply to: RE: Horrors! Worse reception! Need Indoor FM Antenna posted by Nglazer on March 14, 2016 at 10:57:29
One other thing to try-
If you have an open-able window is to get the antenna out side the envelope of the building- steel reinforced concrete etc.
failing that - and array or dipole on the window - glass being less interfering than the building walls-
Also, if it is an old building- there may be an antenna on the roof - that you can tap into - reach out to the building super-
Happy Listening
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Any chance the windows are metallized? If so, nothing you do yourself in your apartment will work, you need an outdoor antenna, or to use cable.Windows are often metallized now to reduce A/C costs, they reflect the sun more. Typically gold, only a few molecules [edit: I guess that would be atoms...] thick, you can see through it, but it's effectively a solid wall to RF.
Just a thought...you'll know the answer by the "style" of your building. :)
[At my old workplace, you couldn't really even visually tell the windows have gold in them, no radio or cell reception. This also helps enforce security, quite stringent, where all cell traffic has to go through the (monitored) interior system, none "direct".]
Edits: 03/16/16 03/16/16
If you can find one used the BIC Beam Box and use it by a window
its directable and you can adjust field of view narrow/wide
Thanx Bill
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