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
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