Can someone help me find a good indoor radio antenna that picks up both AM and FM? (I especially have a problem with AM (which picks up Coast2Coast.)
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Hi Jo. I tried 3-4 of the indoor guys. Not. We live right on the ocean, with Mt. Soledad blocking the world. We use the internet for a lot of our music, and also enjoy stuff not on the internet. So fairly inexpensively, I got an aluminum tower for one of the back balconies, and a big 28 dollar antenna. Works, A -. Search the net for the antennas. There are tons of suppliers. Mostly in the southern states.
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I agree. I bought a better antenna and it works as good as any handheld I've had or had experience with. WELL worth the money!
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Find a station that absolutely does not come in and use that one. I've used it in vehicles that have awesome reception and it can be a pain some times because you might have to change stations on both the unit and the stereo to continue to listen. Usually the higher and lower channels are not used (I.E. 88.1 or 107.1)
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You would need to pick a station that is the most optimal for reception. Here, live 106.7 is really bad on my car - I can only hear just a faint, but 105.9 (unused station) did it for me. Now it sounds really clear without any humming noise during intermission.
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Well - this antenna won't help you at all. For AM reception a "long wire" style antenna is preferred. Simply try and string up as long as piece of wire as you can with the wire parallel to the station you want to pick up. Generally 20-30 feet of speaker type wire "unzipped" to make a single strand...buy 15 feet of wire, unzip it, twist the wires together in the middle and you have a 30' piece. Hook one end to the AM antenna jack on your receiver and try to get the remaining wire up as high and as straight as you can. But don't go nuts...I've run the wire out a window and along the eaves just under the house and its worked great. And you can't beat the price! Good luck!
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Mine doesn't work very well and I am planning on trying a different brand/type. If someone recommended an outdoor type of antenna, this may not work as it's an "Indoor" model.
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I have been told that a second inside antenna is a waste of money and will not increase signal. I tried it. It has been suggested that raising the outside antenna is best, and have it pointing to the nearest tower.
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Have you tried removing the antenna? That is about the only thing I can figure might help with that particular model. I have had a similar issue because it picks up some of my local stations and throws me off but without the antenna it seemed a bit better.
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Pick up some cheap rabbit ears or any other vhf antenna and added it to your set-up with a splitter. I currently have a amp, splitter, the RCA basic antenna connected with my Leaf. I have no issues with reception or getting all the channels in the area. Make sure you use a digital splitter.
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Would recommend going to antennaweb.org where I not only found out which antenna to purchase, but also to find out what stations can be received--depending on one's ZIP code. FYI: I'm based in Central Florida.
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Dear Michelle,Please don´t waste your time and money with this product. Only good use I have had for it is to use it as a mousepad... You better go around some radio shops asking for antenna for your radio. Aiwa is a good brand, I hope you will make it sound good!
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This is down in the VHF band, nothing on the analog channels around here, but the antenna does pick up FM radio some. This antenna is not designed for the lower freqs which usually require much longer elements. Might do ok with nearby stations? Note that all digital channels are now in the higher UHF band.
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I don't know what it will pick up, up there. You will need to get an inline booster. My channel 7.1 through 7.4 comes in good all the time. My channel 21.1 through 21.4 don't come in to good all the time, at night better. But I did not get any channel 21 before. I think I probably get couple other channels that I don't watch. I went on another site to see what channels, antennas would be out there, and how far away they are. And then pointed my antenna in that direction. Had to play with the ears, and antenna direction to get to work better. I hope this will help you make up your mind. I have not done anything to my antenna, but I have been thinking about screwing a bigger base on it.
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I used a plain old fashioned cheapie kind and it works fine. (I got it here at Amazon - an RCA that cost about 10 bucks.) No such thing as a "digital" antenna.This one: RCA Indoor FM and HDTV Antenna
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It will tune in any over-the-air broadcast that your digital antenna will pick up. The key here is the digital antenna. I used one when I moved a year and a half ago, and it was fine because I had good reception in the area. Then I moved again a couple of months ago, and I couldn't pick up anything...zero...zilch...nada! Where I'm at now, I'm kind of down in a valley, and it's impossible to pick up a signal. Bottom line, it will tune anything that your antenna will pick up.
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richard is right, wavelength is key, if the antenna happens to be mathematically close to to the correct wavelength you're trying to pick up, you may be in luck...the only way to know is to try it out.
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Your friend will not have any problems at all. I used the radio at night to listen to Coast to Coast AM. This show comes on at 1 am and is off at 5 am. My husband is sound asleep and the lights are off and I have learned to maneuver all the buttons in the dark. I have even learned to count the number of finger taps on the tuning button to change channels between one favorite channel to another favorite channel. I have pre set some channels but not all. And this radio picks up stations (at night) from Chicago, Charlotte, Boston, NYC, Philly, and some channel in Alabama sometimes, FLA. It's unbelievable. I live in northern Virginia outside of DC. I love this radio.