From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxm!prgclb Newsgroups: net.audio Title: Re: An apartment dwellers thoughs on FM Article-I.D.: ihuxm.163 Posted: Mon Feb 7 10:40:23 1983 Received: Wed Feb 9 00:51:10 1983 Reply-To: prgclb@ihuxm.UUCP (Carl Blesch) References: whuxk.142 Thanks for the FM reception item you posted to the net, Bill Mitchell -- was very informative. I've tried two approaches to receiving FM signals -- the folded-dipole approach (that's the antenna that the mfgr. supplied with my tuner) and the TV antenna. With a good splitter, both approaches give me the same result. With a bad splitter, kiss the TV antenna goodbye. By the way, I have my TV antenna in the attic. I can get away with this as a homeowner -- doesn't help you apartment dwellers very much, however. TV antenna would do better on the roof, but then I'd have to hassle with a boom, straps around the chimney, lightning protection, rf amplifier ('cause the chimney is on the other end of the house from my stereo, and the run would be awfully long). Carl Blesch Bell Labs - Naperville, Ill. IH 2A-159, (312) 979-3360 ihuxm!prgclb