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In Reply to: There were a few Discman - Radios around, maaaate!? posted by Timbo in Oz on January 14, 2007 at 13:01:14:
G'day!My new office is located on "high ground" here in town, so high in fact that the main antennas for the major TV stations and several large radio stations have their broadcast antennas set-up and located not more than a mile or so from where I plant my butt everyday. In fact, I think the "antenna farm" may be even closer than that...
(I never thought of this before. Could I be "too close"?)
And never fear about that small, local Jazz station I emailed you about roughly a month ago. From the roof of our single-story building I can almost see downtown Minneapolis, and the reception inside the building with Gayle's little boom-box is pretty damn good.
What's the building's construction? I believe the walls are pre-cast concrete, with a corrugated metal/asphalt built-up roof. Since I no longer use it here at home I'm thinking of taking my Fanfare FM-2G to work and mounting it on a homebrew stand of some sort up and sticking it up in the false ceiling. Or, with my Boss' approval, natch, I'll be able to mount the antenna to the side of one of the HVAC units on the roof, and I'll simply drop a co-ax line down to my tuner.
Sound reasonable?
Follow Ups:
Do ask yr boss!!!a vertical whip is an omni - for our purposes and in this case ! so it needs to have minimal early reflections nearby including off the ground and above roofs.
aka Higher the better!
sooooo.
Up on the HVAC! and do be sensible up there, and wait for a scheduled service check*, thus min'ing cost to the business. * 'Sick-buildng' minima, and L'a checks, at least, which can be performance-type at the same time - like pad-cleanings, etc?
OOThing, Tandy/RS USED to sell an in-line (coax) signal attenuator, near the tuner okay?
And if Minnesota is at all 'in twister-alley', lightning and all that. Go see a local radio company and get an in-line lghtning block (gaseous arrestor) which you run some thick copper off. You may need to buy some self amalgamating tapes too as the connectors MIGHT* be a bit-big for RG11 so even more with RG6! OR tap in to the HVAC unit's lightning ground path. Tandy used to sell these too with BIG screw connectors.
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
'kay!?
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
I have to get up into the false ceiling tomorrow anyway, and I'll poke my nose around a few places and see what I can do....Thanks!
(Oh, and BTW....I have one of those lightning arrestor connectors inserted in-line with the setup here Chez Collie . I'll take it along if/when I do this, depending upon my Boss' response).
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