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FM antenna

Then do yourself a favor and run coax up to the attic. If you later put up an outside antenna, you can couple to the end of the coax you have going to your indoor antenna. If the run is short, directly to a room below, twinlead will do OK. You can get some specialized wall plates with F connectors (for coax), and blank ones. You could put a couple of binding posts for attaching twinlead.
 
See post 1 in this thread for a link on how to build a good ol' dipole FM antenna.

http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=73083&highlight=antenna

We live in a sort of FM dead zone...quite a few stations, but tough to pull in. So I built a few different dipoles and even without a signal amplifier (available at your local discount store or Rat Shack) the dipoles built for particular frequencies really work quite well! On one general frequency dipole I have up in the main part of our house, I do have a small [black box transformer] signal amplifier, and it REALLY helps...it can take a lousy reception station and add about 10 or 20 "clicks" to the signal and change a mono signal to stereo. All of my dipoles are indoor, but check out this other thread link.

Good luck.
 
If you like to experiment with AM broadcast band antennas, that 468 divided by the frequency in MHZ still applies to get a halfwave dipole length.So,1400 khz would require a dipole in the 335 foot range.Obviously unrealistic,but you see what the challenge is.
 
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