In Reply to: if you have abiggish home block you MIGHT be able to hang an exterior rhombic wire antenna, and aim at the main signal! posted by Timbo in Oz on November 8, 2006 at 20:32:30:
what's the lie of the land from main txer to translator's input antenna like? That input antenna needs to be as big as possible, or be stacked. The limiting factor in the system, because, what you get sent can be no better than thatIt might be cheaper to find all the local listeners and raise funds to do that.
Even if it is good LoS to that point - that is a longgggg way you mentioned, so it may be picking up all sortsa stuff, along with the L-R signal after some bounces which is always vulnerable.
Is the rcvr at the translator running wide-band or just a tight curve around what it needs for 89.9?
And, if I were you I would join the FM tuners group at Yahoo, if you haven't already!
These guys are the bees-ka-neese on this stuff and they may know a dxer (even among the local audience) in yr neck of the woods!
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- IF filters? narrower even! but extra noise even with pro-radio stuff is going to happen. - Timbo in Oz 20:44:57 11/08/06 (0)