I had a friend who just did that for regular AM/FM radios that he could be
tough with wiht all parts, but the most part it was the antenna.  Where we
were at school at the school for the blind in Michigan in the late 80's
not many people liked that idea, but he managed to get the radios to work
at least for a while with the metal hangers, but you had to really be
carefull though.





On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Gary Ketler wrote:

> I once used an old wire coat hanger for a vhf antenna.  I straightened out
> the end and stuck it into the broken end of the antenna.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "matt V" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 1:21 PM
> Subject: kind of on topic: radio, not ham
>
>
> > hi all,
> > I know this isn't a ham radio problem but i was wondering if anyone has an
> > idea what would work.
> > I had a walmart<shudder> radio/tv combo and reception used to be fairly
> > ok, but about 6 months ago, i couldnt hardly pick up much, not that radio
> > has anything good thats why i want xm, but this station 40 miles or so
> > north of us doesn't even come in over the whitenoise anymore, and on a
> > good day it barely does so when the antenna broke off finally i got my
> > aluminum foil out and made a makeshift antenna, well as i found out, that
> > works as well as a wooden nickel lol  not that i've actually found one of
> > those to try, but any idea what would  work for an fm antenna until i can
> > get xm?i was thinking about the magmount 2 meter antenna i have here but
> > not sure what that would do to the radio or the antenna.  This thing from
> > walmart does have an antenna or cable hookup/jack though
> >
>