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I used to have one of those mid-70's Radioshack FM rabbit ears. I heard a
lot of great dx with them.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Canazzi" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: kind of on topic: radio, not ham
> Hi Matt,
>
> i have found that for FM reception a simple non-amplified rabbit ears can
> work as well as anything short of a fancy roof mount array. I have been
> using a Radio Shack FM rabbit ears that cost me all of 14 dollars in 1977
> and it's still doing a good job. I have never had any success with the
> amplified rabbit ears FM or TV. They usually cost 3 or 4 times as much as
> the non-amplified and I have never noticed any real difference--except
> that
> in some cheaper models--I get a lot more multipath when I turn on the
> amplifier.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "matt V" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 2:21 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
>
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