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FM Antenna

M

MarioMania

I have a Eton/Grundig Field 550 with Ext Jacks for FM & SW

Not the BT version

I see FM Antennas on ebay for like 2 ft

I need one like 12ft to hook it up to my Radio for DXing Seaso

EtonGrundig Field 550.jpg
 
Mario, you are not far from me..

I'd be interested in what you can pickup/find on the FM band from your location with a dedicated outdoor antenna. I have the same radio, except its the Eton Field BT. Jay Allen says these are "as good as it gets in an FM portable radio". I can concur with that! My only gripe with this radio so far is the audio output. Its not that loud. Many times, I have found I have the volume all the way up, and wished there's was more VOLUME. Reminds me of the Sangean PR-D5 on AM. Great ((outstanding performance with low noise floor)), just needs more POWER to hear things.

I can get a few Sacramento FM stations here in the South Bay barefoot, but they are very weak. Same goes for Fresno and Central coast stations. Nothing is easy here in the south bay, as we are surrounded by mountains/hills on 3 sides. Being in Sacramento, you should have a better shot at getting stations coming up from the south and down from the north of you. I'b be curious how many Bay area radio stations you get.
 
@formula72

Yup on the outdoor antenna, if that's possible in Mario's case.
Out on Long Island's North Shore, a buddy from back in grammar school had a remote rotor-job outdoors. I think he had a Fisher tuner ; maybe it was a McIntosh. And while it's true that the reception hunting area was east coast flatlands, and that the house was on one of Long Island's few hills, the scan was amazing.
We spent an entire average-reception-conditions afternoon pointing that aerial every which way and being stunned by the preciseness of the antenna's bearings. The aim easily separated the trio of 94.3's from New Haven, NJ and even the more localHuntington., making each listenable with no co-channel grumbling.
Boston? Just swivel the rotor generally near between the ears of Paul Revere's statue ; I remember their 103.3 being *crystal*.
Aimed almost due North, the antenna got a booming WHOM-FM 94.9 from New Hampshire.
There were other DX delights. I'm convinced that the stations didn't need a Carnegie Hall sound system radio to welcome them.
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I had one of those 90-mile Radio Shack-job antennae on the roof of the previoushome here in town, mostly for TV. It worked VERY well with the FM section of a GE SR 2 and even some lousy $19 portable.
 
I'm renting a house, So No on the outdoor Antenna

I need at lease 12ft antenna or a replacment antenna for my Eton Grundig 550, it broke off
 
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