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From: iccad@tekig.UUCP (IC Computer Aided Design)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: FM reception
Message-ID: <1678@tekig.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Dec-83 17:06:33 EST
Article-I.D.: tekig.1678
Posted: Mon Dec  5 17:06:33 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 8-Dec-83 20:46:52 EST
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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I record music from a distant FM station.  I have a good tuner
and have bought a roof FM antenna to improve my reception.
I still have some problems with multipath, fading, fuzz, distortion,
whatever.  The station is a considerable distance away, i.e. reception
is bound to be problematic to begin with.  However:  I recently
tuned it in on my TABLE radio with its TWIN-LEAD DIPOLE in my bedroom
and got clear reception, while my sophisticated hi-tech rig was in
the living room fuzzing its brains out.  I didn't know whether to
laugh or throw up.

I replaced the twin-lead lead-in on my roof antenna with coax and
a transformer and improved the situation some.  I'm thinking about
buying an antenna rotator.  (Right - throw more money down a
sophisticated rathole.)

Obviously, it IS possible to get good reception, even if I just
use a cheap dipole antenna with my stereo and use the roof antenna
for a boat anchor.  The problem is, even the dipole doesn't provide
distortion-free reception all the time, and I find it difficult to
believe that I can't set up a roof antenna that will do better than
a stupid twin-lead dipole!!

I have also noticed that when the reception goes out on the indoor
dipole, I can improve it by turning it slightly (it hangs from the
ceiling, attached to a wood slat), and the reception fades in and
out in any position I put it in.  Seemingly the signal path is changing
directions?

	(1)  YAAARRGGhh!!  HAAAALLLPPP!!


	(2)  Is this article posted to the right newsgroup?
	IS there a right newsgroup for this article?

	(3)  Is there a sophisticated antenna system out there
	that might cure my problem?

	(4)  Are there any sources of information I might pursue?

	(5)  Do I have to design a position-servoed antenna with
	signal-strength and/or multi-path sensing and feedback?
	(I'm mad enough.)