Radio Road

Which tuner to get and getting the most from it. Thank God, for the radio!

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seems to me that some folks need to get their heads around

Posted by Timbo in Oz on September 14, 2016 at 15:58:27:
FM radio reception as a dependent system, depending most on the antenna, and accepting that as FM wave-lengths are 12 ft on average that the antenna thus CAN'T be small.

Gain is the issue and gain is orthogonal with size.

Especially when DX-ing which is the case here.

The internet has lots of FM Dxing sites, to boot.

That they live on a mountain won't hurt, but the facts are what they are.

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This attitude which focusses on the tuner / receiver seems rife here, and is implicit in your originating post.

It is simply not possible to get an FM station > 200 miles away without a seriously large antenna aimed at the transmitter.

A large exterior Rhombic -see FAQs here - on poles would be cheaper that two big and long and stacked log-periodic boom antennas.