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To: cva66snipe

More than anything I would like to be able to get good fm reception for my house. I wish I could turn my whole house into an aerial. I like stand alone shelf stereos and to use the tuners on them to receive the great classical and vintage music stations would be great! I get them all in the car in the driveway.


178 posted on 12/28/2014 5:19:51 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: Chickensoup

Do you listen to Pandora?


181 posted on 12/28/2014 5:27:25 PM PST by ansel12 (They hate us, because they ain't us.)
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To: Chickensoup
More than anything I would like to be able to get good fm reception for my house. I wish I could turn my whole house into an aerial. I like stand alone shelf stereos and to use the tuners on them to receive the great classical and vintage music stations would be great! I get them all in the car in the driveway.

Do what I was talking about it should work. An old analog outdoor TV antenna if you mount it with the elements vertical should work. You may need an analog TV signal amp. FM IIRC without going to see is roughly 88MHZ - 108MHZ. Well within the range of that antenna and amp. BTW you may have to aim the antenna toward the desired station. TV antennas are YAGI antennas meaning directional. You get lots of gain mainly in the direction it is aimed to receive from. You may not even need an amp for it.

FM radio is much easier to get than the old analog TV signals and the bouncing doesn't bother it like it did in TV. The bouncing caused Ghost usually. IOW you were getting the signal from the tower and as well from a nearby ridge where the signal also had bounced.

182 posted on 12/28/2014 5:32:20 PM PST by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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