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I use a vintage powered Radio Shack antenna, model 15-1859 and it works great. You should be able to find them for cheap on eBay.
I'm sure others will chime in with antennas which cost more, but I've compared this one with roof mounted antennas and it holds it's own.
I'm sure others will chime in with antennas which cost more, but I've compared this one with roof mounted antennas and it holds it's own.
Blue Shadow
Waiting for Vintage Gear from this century
What do you mean by a good antenna? Start with a chuck of wire hooked up to one of the 300Ω terminals. 3 feet is fine. That is a bad antenna but enough for me to test all sorts of gear for a working FM section
Get a folded dipole, that T shaped antenna that came with the unit. under 10 bucks sometimes way less. Basic antenna.
Get a nice indoor powered antenna, should be better than the folded dipole but that isn't my experience.
Get an outdoor old TV antenna and hook up the VHF section to your receiver. Use the correct connections for the wiring used with the antenna.
Get a newer FM only outdoor antenna and hook it up to a rotator to be able to point the antenna toward the broadcast tower.
How good an antenna do you want?
Get a folded dipole, that T shaped antenna that came with the unit. under 10 bucks sometimes way less. Basic antenna.
Get a nice indoor powered antenna, should be better than the folded dipole but that isn't my experience.
Get an outdoor old TV antenna and hook up the VHF section to your receiver. Use the correct connections for the wiring used with the antenna.
Get a newer FM only outdoor antenna and hook it up to a rotator to be able to point the antenna toward the broadcast tower.
How good an antenna do you want?
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I LIKE MUSIC
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What will be a good antenna for you depends on your needs. When it comes to selecting an FM broadcast band antenna it is all about the quality and strength of the signal that is in the air at your location, for your station(s) of interest. It tends to be a little bit of trial and error and it not necessarily the same for you as for others. Recommendations of " I have antenna XYZ, it works great/pulls in a lot of stations" does not necessarily mean that it will work for you, although it might.
For stations that have moderate to strong signals, just a piece of wire may work okay and or an FM broadcast band dipole may work for you. Rabbit ear type antennas may work better than the dipole antennas because they offer easy adjustability, the length and position of the elements can be adjusted for best reception, especially if your stations of interest lie in different directions.
This may not necessarily be good advice. The term "old TV antenna" covers a lot of ground. Not all TV antennas are created equal when it comes FM broadcast band reception.
Since the change over to digital over the air TV it is not uncommon for what one might call an "old TV antenna" to be a VHF high band (174 MHz to 212 Mhz) /UHF (470 MHz to 890 MHz) antenna. This is way above the FM broadcast band and will likely provide poor performance.
Even VHF TV antennas that cover the VHF low band channels may provide less performance than a 30 dollar purpose designed outdoor FM broadcast band antenna. It is not uncommon for their performance to mostly drop off a cliff above about 93 MHz. Of course if your are in a strong signal area, just about any random piece of metal/wire stuck up in the air indoors or out doors may be sufficient
FM Fool and Radio Locator can give you a rough general idea of the strength and direction of your stations of interest if needed.
DirtFarmer
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Go ahead and laugh, but I recently bought one of these form Walmart - yes, Walmart - and it works fine; much better than a similar Terk I tried.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/ONN-Easy-Adjust-Antenna/52170373
Rabbit ears work excellent where I live.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/ONN-Easy-Adjust-Antenna/52170373
Rabbit ears work excellent where I live.
I am not laughing at all....rabbit ears work great a lot of the time. I use a set I got for $2 at a thrift store for our bedroom systems and it works better than several powered ones that I tried.
