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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
Get a Sony HAP Z1, use wired ethernet, listen to online Radio.
You won't be sorry!!!
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Thanks to all for your suggestions. Unfortunately, I am on 15th floor in a 90's high rise with metal windows. Even when I come off the West Side Highway on 95th Street I get only weak FM reception for WFUV 90.7 on my car radio. At home, with CC Crane dipole, WQXR 105.9 comes in strong and clear, as do many other stations. So I suspect there is something about how WFUV broadcasts or where it is located (the Bronx, not that far away), even though they built a giant new broadcast antenna a few years ago.
Cannot put antenna outside window and there is no roof antenna. I dread the thought, but may have pick up the streaming signal from this station and run it through my DAC. Better than distortion, I guess. Will break my heart to say good-bye to my vintage Sansui TU-9900.
Price of living in NYC.
Neal
Neal,
Once you "bite the bullet" and set up for WWW streaming, make sure to add WWFM to your station list. WWFM will very nicely complement WQXR.
BTW, if you can stomach HD2, WWFM is available, over the air, in NYC.
Eli D.
If your window opens and happens to be oriented where the FM station is you can always try taping a folded dipole indoor antenna to the outside of your window as an experiment to see if reception improves. If you have two windows you can open on the same side of the building, and you are brave enough you can try swinging a nut on the endo of twine over a long stick protruding from the other window. If you can accomplish that you can install a home made folded dipole on a stronger line and pull it between the windows.
this is highly illegal, if you have a near by friend who gets a good signal, you can aim a directional antenna at the source, run coax into the input of a VHF TV amplifier rout coax from its out put to a direction antenna aimed at where you live.
Good Luck
bob
Never assume anything I post is accurate.
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