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Terk FM-50 antenna

Dougr33

Dougr33

Smoothing the Grooving
Anyone using a Terk FM-50 amplified, outdoor antenna on the side of a house with a vintage receiver/tuner. Close to a (less attractive, since my chimny is at the front of the house) good fm-only mast antenna? I'm about 10 miles west of Minneapolis. Thanks folks.
 
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I too am looking at getting one of these puppies....but they are unavailable here in Australia right now.

Only thing I reckon they should of done is have a variable gain instead of a on/off gain. :yes:
 
terk AF-1

I'm not shure about the outside antenna, but I can tell you about the inside AF-1 model, I have it hooked up to a Luxman receiver at my work place (steel fabrication shop) and for the FM no good, to much electrical interference, but I do use it for AM so I can listen to the baseball games. but actually the antenna just amps the signal and dosn't clean anything up. so for FM I use a set of rabbit ears TV antenna which works better than the Terk. Hope this helps you a little,good luck
 
I do.

Mine is mounted in my attic and I really love it.It really helped the number Of stations I could pick up in stereo and really maxed out the signals of the ones I already got.Well worth the money in my opinion.
 
I've never had very good results from the Terk Products. In fact, a friend of mine with a similar experience said about Terk, "never has a company promised so much, and delivered so little". I tend to agree.

I would recommend that you consider this antenna offered by C. Crane Company.

< http://www.ccrane.com/antennas/fm-antennas/fanfare-fm-antenna.aspx >

or this tweaked variation of the same antenna

< http://www.fanfare.com/fm-2g-c.html >

I have currently been using this antenna with good results.

< http://www.ccrane.com/antennas/fm-antennas/fm-reflect-antenna.aspx >


- augustwest
 
I've never had very good results from the Terk Products. In fact, a friend of mine with a similar experience said about Terk, "never has a company promised so much, and delivered so little". I tend to agree.

I disagree. Godar takes that title.

I'm using this for AM, and with very good results:

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So much so that I have three of them at home, built one for my brother, and some for several friends. And one for Dr*Audio, who reports good results, too.
 
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