Poor FM Reception


( am not too far away from FM stations but reception is poor. Two tuners with FET front end, it is not the tuner. I think house covered with solar panels blocks the signal. A Terk AF-1 amplified is very poor antenna. Radio Shack tunable antenna coming soon to test. Also ordered the 300 ohm twin lead 6 foot antenna and an amplifier to try. May be forced to install outdoor antenna.

jimbennet

I own a Fanfare FM-2G-C which I've mounted outdoors a couple places I've lived and it beats every indoor antenna I've tried, and I've tried a bunch. There's an FM-2G on eBay right now along with a couple Magnum Dynalab ST-2s, which I understand are very similar to the Fanfare. If there's a listenable signal at all, I suspect these antennas will work as long as you have a good place to mount outdoors.

David

I decided to buy Stellar Labs 4 element beam. Stations are either north or south. North is 20 miles away and south is 55 miles. Pointed south I can also receive stations north on beam antenna backside as stations are only 20 miles away. No rotor needed.