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Posted by Mark Lloyd on March 27, 2008, 11:08 am
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:47:59 -0500, letterman@invalid.com wrote:
>wrote:
>
>>My dad needs a GOOD indoor OR outdoor FM radio antenna to recieve the Gospel
>>station he likes. It comes in clear in the car even in the garage but no
>>luck in the house. Have tried the wire antenna,35 dollar radioshack indoor
>>antenna,rabbitears,rooftop TV antenna,ect. He is trying to get it on his
>>Fisher Reciever...He used to get a similar station on satellite but it is no
>>longer available.Southern gospel stations are hard to come by here in
>>Maine...LOL...There is only one....
>>
>>Any thoughts or ideas????
>
>I forgot to mention.
>You can usually get pretty good reception by tapping into a rooftop TV
>antenna coax. Just add a TEE splitter in the coax. The antenna wire
>goes to the one labelled IN. There are two labelled OUT. One of them
>goes to the tv, the other to the FM radio. If the radio had two
>screws on the back, you'll need a balun, which you can buy anwhere
>they sell antenna parts, and they are just a small tubular device with
>a coax fitting on one end and two wire spades on the other. You're
>only looking at $10 worth of parts unless the radio is a long distance
>from the tv and you need a real long cable. Your Radio Shack employee
>should be able to sell you the right parts, unless the store has
>idiots for employees (some of them are). Most building supply stores
>like Home Depot, Manards, Lowes, etc all carry this stuff. Walmart
>probably even has it.
That should work fine, considering that the FM broadcast band is a
range of frequencies just above TV channel 6.
BTW, I used to know some people around here would listen to TV channel
6 using FM radios. It's near the low end of the radio's tuning range.
This would likely not work with a modern radio with digital tuning.
--
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