From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!rabbit!ark
Newsgroups: net.audio
Title: FM Reception query
Article-I.D.: rabbit.761
Posted: Tue Sep 21 18:39:18 1982
Received: Wed Sep 22 04:19:30 1982

I live in an area with terrible FM reception problems.  I am about
10 miles from the transmitter (which is in Manhattan) in a huge
high-rise building in which my windows all face almost directly
away from the transmitter.  There is a master antenna on the roof,
but it seems to have some kind of trap to filter out the FM frequencies.
The reception I get from a folded dipole indoors is better than that
I get from the master antenna.

I have seen ads for an indoor FM antenna called a "Beam Box",
and tried to buy one.  A funny thing happened:  both stores
I visited said that although they have them in stock, they
don't think they are very good and therefore they declined to
sell me one.  I'm inclined to believe it if the dealers are so
negative.

Any have any other suggestions for improving reception?  To anticipate
some possible replies, (1) I have experimented to find the optimum
orientation for the dipole, (2) I have a multipath meter on my tuner
which indicates that multipath distortion is indeed the problem,
(3) I cannot get access to the roof to erect my own antenna.