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In Reply to: RE: Picking up a station 350 miles away posted by aarocks on September 07, 2016 at 09:20:08
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.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
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Much closer stations on same frequency and probably in the same direction. I didn't see where he said where they were or that they were on a mountain.The station has a good Internet feed and interestingly a nice three page PDF download on FM reception on their site.
ET
"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
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But, my case rests about people who seem unaware of the importance of antennas for FM, while obsessing about the tuner.
It's like buying a Koetsu cartridge and putting it on a Garrard Sp25.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Yes we see that all the time. Very few people seem willing to put up any outdoor antenna anymore much less a good one.
I did think it was cool they had a well written PDF on FM reception on their website.
ET
"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
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