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I never built it, but there was an article in the January 1982 issue of Audio magazine called "Try a Rhombic FM Antenna". Do a search for those exact words and Google will find a PDF of the article. I'd be curious as to how well they work.
I built one in my first apartment! Had a fairly square main room so I stapled 300 ohm flat lead in a diamond where the wall met the ceiling and put in the resistors called for. The 4 legs of the diamond were about 10 ft. long each. Local stations came in like flamethrowers, and it turned out it was aimed just about right to get very distant stations from St. Louis. I was picking up FM from 125 miles on my '81 Sherwood receiver. Good times!
There are a lot of rabbit ears of newer vintage than that old ad above - they came with the last generation of CRT TV's and usually didn't have a base, but a plastic stud that fit into a socket on the TV set. You can find em at garage sales etc. I just cut a scrap of 4x4 and drill a hole in the top. Easy to rotate when needed and you can telescope them down when not in use for a neat appearance.
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