You could also try to locate a place in your building to DX or do
whatever. A friend of mine located a place in his apartment building to
DX at least with AM for now, and we'll have to see how TV/FM would do in
the summer.
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, matt V wrote:
> i hate to say, none of the suggestions work. i think, actually i know,
> there is too dang much rf in this building and i guess i'll have to settle
> for 50/50 hiss and station, until i get xm. I hope there is not too much
> rf for that
>
>
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Gary Ketler wrote:
>
> > 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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