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Stereo Receiver Tuner Help

You're getting confused, so just buy the antenna from the link below. Do not go back to ebay and order one from china to save a dollar, it takes forever for inexpensive purchases to get to the states.
Once you get it, there are two tabs, one goes to ground, and one goes to either 300 or 75, because typically they tied them together inside the amp.
You don't need anything fancier than this, especially if you haven't been using FM anyway.
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Oh, I didn't see the second picture you posted. You don't need a balun, just get the antennas I listed and connect them to the screw terminals. The FM antenna goes to the 300 Ohm terminals. Just slip the U shaped terminals under the black screw heads and screw them down. AM antenna goes to the terminals marked AM.
 
Thank you to everyone who responded to this thread! My father had the idea of testing the receiver with a wire coat hanger first, and it picked up three stations. I guess it is save to say that the tuner at least works! I am going to order the FM Dipole Antenna that dr*audio and CT Jim suggested. I think I am going to leave the AM stations alone for now, because I can't remember what is even on those stations. Thank you again for everyone's help and hope that everyone has a nice weekend!
 
I would like to think everyone who participated in this thread, again! My antenna came in yesterday and I hooked the twin leads into the 300 ohm and 75 ohm connectors (please correct me if I did something wrong). The signal is great and I am able to pick up a fair number of stations, including my favorite local station. One thing I would like to add and maybe ask about is that my receiver has a setting called "FM Tuning Level". There is a button that switches this setting between two options, "High" and "Low". While messing with the auto tune search, I discovered that my receiver will only pick up certain stations if the tuning level is set to low. Could someone please explain to me what this means? Thank you and I hope that everyone has a nice day!
 
You already explained it. It lowers the reception level.
It's so you won't be trying to tune in a station that won't come in clear, or will be staticy, or has another station on the same freq.
 
Also if the tuner was designed to have just one sensitivity setting to pick up the weakest stations, the strong stations would overload it. We're talking millionths of watts so it wouldn't make the tuner catch on fire, but what it does do is cause distortion by forcing the circuits to operate outside their linear range. Selectable sensitivity allows tuning of both strong and weak stations and the best sound on both.
 
>>I hooked the twin leads into the 300 ohm and 75 ohm connectors

The Parts Express dipole is 300 ohm twin (flat) lead, you would use a Balun to connect it to the 75ohm coax input on the receiver.
The 300 ohm screw connections on the receiver are for AM. I guess it would pick something up in the AM if you also connected it to that but usually you use a different type of antenna for AM.
Possibly, hooking it up to both could split the signal even though the other band isn't being used, which would decrease signal strength.
If you don't really use AM just don't connect anything to those inputs.

I may be missing something here as there was considerable discussion earlier in the thread about hookup.
 
toxcrusadr said:
>>I hooked the twin leads into the 300 ohm and 75 ohm connectors

The Parts Express dipole is 300 ohm twin (flat) lead, you would use a Balun to connect it to the 75ohm coax input on the receiver.
The 300 ohm screw connections on the receiver are for AM.
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No, the 300 ohm screw connections are for FM.

There is a separate AM antenna connector.
 
Guest137 said:
I would like to think everyone who participated in this thread, again! My antenna came in yesterday and I hooked the twin leads into the 300 ohm and 75 ohm connectors (please correct me if I did something wrong).
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In other words, you connected the twin leads from the antenna to the two screws labelled "300 ohm", i.e., the leftmost two?

If so, that's correct.
 
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I have the twin leads connected into the two connectors at the far left side. I may be misreading the labels, but to my understand the first connector is labelled 300 ohms, the second is labelled 75 ohms, the third is the ground connector, and the fourth and last connector of the set is for the AM connection (which I do not know the ohm rating of).
 
You want 300 Ohms and ground for FM if your using flat twin lead. There is no Ohm rating for AM antennas. A single wire should suffice.
 
It's kind of a goofy setup, at least the way it's labeled, but I think JoeESP9 is right. Hook up your FM flat lead antenna to 300 and ground and see if reception changes at all.

AM is usually a straight wire antenna with a separate wire to ground. Or, if using an AM loop, one side of the loop goes to the ground screw and the other to AM.
 
Guest137 said:
I have the twin leads connected into the two connectors at the far left side.
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That is correct.
Guest137 said:
I may be misreading the labels, but to my understand the first connector is labelled 300 ohms, the second is labelled 75 ohms, the third is the ground connector, and the fourth and last connector of the set is for the AM connection (which I do not know the ohm rating of).
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Going left to right, the first two connectors are for 300 ohm twinlead. That's what you're using, and it's correct.

If you're using 75 ohm coax, the second connector also doubles as the connector for the centre core of 75 ohm coax. The ground of the 75 ohm coax goes to the third connector, which is labelled ground. The fourth connector is for an AM antenna/aerial.

For an AM antenna, a length of wire is fine.
 
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