From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!whuxk!wjm Newsgroups: net.audio Title: The Beam Box Article-I.D.: whuxk.143 Posted: Tue Feb 8 08:48:13 1983 Received: Fri Feb 11 02:01:50 1983 BIC's Beam Box FM antenna can be quite useful in getting rid of multipath and other urban interference problems since it is VERY directional, but for suburbanites it is worse than useless, since its directionality carries a price - about -8 dB of gain relative to a dipole (the T shaped piece of wire that comes with your tuner and/or receiver). Out here in the suburbs, you need GAIN more than anything else, and the best way to get it is a good outdoor antenna. If you can't hang up an outdoor antenna, see my comments that I posted to the net yesterday for some alternatives. Bill Mitchell Bell Laboratories Whippany, NJ (whuxk!wjm)