I read on www.dxing.com that the rabbit ears are actually sometimes
preferred.  What luck have you all had with TV?  I posted a while back
last summer when I got the very long distance catch on FM from Florida in
late July and that was with  the 392 and the stock antenna on the radio.





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
> >
>