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RE: Horrors! Worse reception! Need Indoor FM Antenna

Posted by Eli Duttman (A) on March 14, 2016 at 11:32:41

In Reply to: Horrors! Worse reception! Need Indoor FM Antenna posted by Nglazer on March 14, 2016 at 10:57:29:

You are dealing with a steel shielded building and multipath problems. When I lived in Forest Hills, I had to deal with a variable multipath problem associated with LGA flight patterns. :>((

Try a folded dipole made from 300 ohm twin lead tacked to a broomstick or similar wood rod. You may have to resort to hanging a rhombic antenna from the listening room ceiling. Of course, the latter option has ZERO SOAF.

I compute that you need 1.72 meters, end to end, in the folded dipole.

Up in Westchester County, you had, more or less, clear line of sight between the transmitting and receiving antennas. That does not obtain on Manhattan's Upper West Side.


Eli D.

Edits: 03/14/16

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