Xref: utzoo sci.electronics:3681 soc.college:1811 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!think!bloom-beacon!apple!lemke From: lemke@Apple.COM (Steve Lemke) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,soc.college Subject: Re: Dorm room antenna Message-ID: <16014@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 23 Aug 88 23:26:18 GMT References: <4909@fluke.COM> Reply-To: lemke@apple.com.UUCP (Steve Lemke) Distribution: na Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 24 In article <4909@fluke.COM> strong@tc.fluke.COM (Norm Strong) writes: >I recommend an outdoor antenna on the roof of the dorm. Do not ask permission >to put it there; the answer will be NO. (Better to ask forgiveness than >permission.) Another quote: Never take "no" from someone who doesn't have the authority to say "yes". Anyway, in my dorm (ten story building with LOTS of concrete and steel), I had little luck with a FM dipole in the room. I then bought the $13.00 Radio Shack omnidirectional (mast mount) antenna, and hung it from the ceiling which sometimes worked and sometimes didn't - rotating it (funny, it was supposed to be omni-directional) often helped. I also had a FM signal booster but I wouldn't recommend wasting money on one of those - in a fringe area or an area with lots of interference, it just amplifies the static and the interference... Good luck - the best thing I did to improve FM reception was to move out of the dorms at the end of the year and into my own apartment where I could tap the cable and (through a A/B switch) use an antenna conven- iently installed in our attic. ===== Steve Lemke ===== Internet (?): lemke@apple.com UUCP: {sun,voder,nsc,decwrl}!apple!lemke AppleLink: LEMKE GEnie: S.Lemke All opinions are, of course, mine, and could never belong to anyone else!