Hello all, I recently purchased a GE Superadio II on ebay. Sadly, the FM antenna is in very rough shape and I need a replacement. What are the replacement FM whip antennas available for this radio? I searched Ebay and found dozens of different models and wasn't sure which is the correct size. Is there any good FM whip antennas that are reccomendable? Want to do some FM dxing with it. I know it isn't a dxing rig on FM but want to try it anyway.
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GE Superadio External Whip Antenna
- Thread starter Carltheradioguy
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I don't have your first answer... I would think any whip would do. You might have to file down the tip where it screws into the radio to make it fit.
GE Superadios will DX on FM. I live in an FM nowhere (i.e. no E-skip here, hardly ever) but was able to hear a station on the other side of the mountains, in another state, over 200 miles away, just off the whip, during tropo. That was by accident.
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Check with MFJ...they have a huge selection of antennas. Also, DX Engineering.
Thank you!
Will do! I asked about 5 different companies online from GE to RCA to Walmart etc and they all have no idea. GE flat out said that they don't sell that stuff anymore. So essentially i'm on my own HAHAHAH. But I will ask those two companies. Thank you!
Just buy a whip that looks as if it would fit and file the screw-in tip. Unless someone online has a parts radio. I think there are guys on here with non-working SR's that might have parts radios.
I've gotten whips for boomboxes that didn't quite fit and just filed the thicker tip to fit the slot of the whip antenna terminal and the whip worked fine.
You could always do this and then take it off and replace it if you get the real thing. That way you could use it while searching out something that fits/looks better.
I had a Superadio that I had to replace the whip antenna and just found one at Radio Shack. (Good luck finding a location for that now.) But the original whip antennas had a plastic covered section around them. Did that contain a coil that helped amplify the signal and did it help, or was that just for looks? For how I used it what I found worked fine.
That plastic grip was for that purpose: a grip. No coil in it whatsoever. The GE Superadio whip is just a hunk of wire, electrically -- just a fancy whip with a plastic grip on it to make it easier to grab it, move it around, etc.
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