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From: jon@boulder.UUCP (Jonathan Corbet)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: FM tuner query
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Date: Thu, 14-Mar-85 20:41:45 EST
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> Do you use an outside antenna? Are you reasonably line of sight to
> anywhere?  [...] What do you now use for an FM set?  Is it stereo?
> Miracles are possible, these days, but we are not clairvoyant (sorry,
> there's a charge for that).
Awwww, man...you can't get anything for free anymore! :-)

>                              Tell us about your location. At the bottom
> of a lead mine? Where do you live with respect to the terrain?

Dick Dunn did a good job of filling in where I left off -- basically, there
is a bunch of 1000' rock slabs just to the west of town called the Flatirons.
The result is a great deal of multipath interference, especially for people
like me who live on the west end of town.  As far as equipment, I have a
Yamaha CR420 receiver, with your basic 300 ohm dipole antenna.  Since I
rent a condo, I really can't put a good antenna on the roof.

Brian Reid tells me that the Carver TX11 is the way to go, if one has $650
to spend on it.  (BTW, I tried to thank you, Brian, but the mail path you
used appears to be one of those one-way jobbies...).  Does anybody else
know of any good receivers, especially cheaper ones?

-- 
Jonathan Corbet
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Field Observing Facility
{seismo|hplabs}!hao!boulder!jon		(Thanks to CU CS department)