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FM Antennas for HD Radios

BruceS8852

BruceS8852

Can someone recommend an indoor antenna for FM HD reception? I have an Accurian HD radio. I use the antenna that came with the radio. Although I live only 8 miles from the Empire State Building, I have many bad reception days on HD stations.

Thanks

Bruce
 
The (passive) Magnum Dynalab SR-100 from Magnum Dynalab. I live in a multipath prone rural area (surrounded by mountains), and got FM HD at 80 miles on the thing. It should work for you at 8 miles! But as with any antenna, it's best to move it around before settling on a location. Get it away from your radio! HD Radios are computers...they generate hash that can interfere with reception, if too close to the antenna.
 
How well does your HD Stay locked?? I cant pull in Houston HD Decent with my winegard antenna or my fm antenna which is both 20-25 feet in the air. Thats why I quit HD. Not reliable. My analog comes in great.
 
jras, perhaps your radio is at fault (Boston Acousics? I'm guessing....) I have no signal-lock problems on the stations I listen to most. Of course ANY digital signal (audio or video) will occasionally "unlock", or "glitch". XM does it, so does DirecTV, and over the air Digital TV. But it's rare, and brief.
 
It could be the radio, I have a accurian hd and a sangean HD-1 tuner, the Sangean seemed to be able to be more sensitive than the Accurian, but still the analog comes in much better. I hardly have any drops on my DirectTV. I have more drops on the DTV with my outdoor antenna than I do with DirectTV. I havnt gone back to HDRadio. Really not much more choices around here. 2 top 40 stations on the same channel and a oldies channel, thats about it around here.
 
Jras I made no claim about the number of "drops", only that "drops" happen with ALL digital formats. It's the nature of digital. It works, or it doesn't.
 
Mike Walker said:
jras, perhaps your radio is at fault (Boston Acousics? I'm guessing....) I have no signal-lock problems on the stations I listen to most. Of course ANY digital signal (audio or video) will occasionally "unlock", or "glitch". XM does it, so does DirecTV, and over the air Digital TV. But it's rare, and brief.
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I think his main problem is trying to use TV antennas for FM reception. The very best TV antenna I have seen on the market only has 3 to 4 dB of gain on the FM band. A good FM antenna like an APS-13 can have double that or more.

I've got the same model tuner he does - well a newer revision - and have yet to get 100 mile plus HD FM under ordinary conditions. But - a large part of that is lack of target stations from the DFW area. A caveat, though - there was a huge opening up North last Saturday, Tulsa stations were pegging the meter. Not a one gave even a momentary HD flicker. Either they aren't running it, or no amount of skip will bring in HD.
 
BruceS8852 said:
Can someone recommend an indoor antenna for FM HD reception? I have an Accurian HD radio. I use the antenna that came with the radio. Although I live only 8 miles from the Empire State Building, I have many bad reception days on HD stations.

Thanks

Bruce
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You live 8 whole miles from the transmitting antennas and you can't receive the IBOC station? Ever consider a direct line, or how about a big indoor rotatable Yagi mounted in your attic, technically that's still indoors.
 
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