I live in Virginia Highland area of extreme western Dekalb county, just a stones throw away from the tower farms on Richland and the Zonolite area. I can barely receive any FM station because of all the bombardment of the signals fighting it out. What would be a better solution for some of the 100k's? Maybe a dumb question, but the FM dial is all hash.
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TOO MUCH OVERLOAD ON FM>>>>>>>>
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A better receiver. Even then, you probably aren't going to get any stations adjacent to the ones there.
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BRENT said:
What? No harmonic filters?
Is there a general solution to this problem? Friend of mine in Loganville has the same problem with True Oldies and The Fish bleeding all over the FM dial...and another friend in Chateau Elan has the same problem with the NEW 97.1 The River and what was The Beat.
Still, I'm surprised you're having this problem with a GE Superadio.
Still, I'm surprised you're having this problem with a GE Superadio.
Get the little Sony XDR-F1HD AM/FM/HD tuner. It is fantastic for the price. Best adjacent channel/alternate channel rejection I've ever seen. Cost: about $70.
Example: I can get the little jazz station 91.9, Clark Atlanta from 50 miles west with a huge blowtorch country station at 92.1 13 miles south.
Example: I can get the little jazz station 91.9, Clark Atlanta from 50 miles west with a huge blowtorch country station at 92.1 13 miles south.
Try this. Take a piece of television twin-lead (the 300 ohm stuff), attach a piece about 10 feet long to the FM antenna terminals of the Super Radio. Leave the 2 wires at the other end unconnected.
Tune in your strongest interfering station- then as you stretch out the twin-lead take a razor blade and pierce the insulation of the twin-lead effectively shorting the two wires together.
Start at the end of the twin-lead and slowly work your way toward the radio (an inch at a time) shorting the leads with the razor blade until the interfering signal drops way down. Mark this point on the twin-lead for a permanent short of the two wires, which you can do once you've found the right point on the twin-lead.
Voila! ....you've filtered out the interfering station. (You've also reduced the signal a little on all the stations, that's why you need to focus on removing the strongest interferer the most.)
Tune in your strongest interfering station- then as you stretch out the twin-lead take a razor blade and pierce the insulation of the twin-lead effectively shorting the two wires together.
Start at the end of the twin-lead and slowly work your way toward the radio (an inch at a time) shorting the leads with the razor blade until the interfering signal drops way down. Mark this point on the twin-lead for a permanent short of the two wires, which you can do once you've found the right point on the twin-lead.
Voila! ....you've filtered out the interfering station. (You've also reduced the signal a little on all the stations, that's why you need to focus on removing the strongest interferer the most.)
um, no. that method is tuning an antenna to null out a specific frequency (that's overloading the whole spectrum, or at least a big part of it).
if you were to null out wssl's 100.5 frequency, wnnx's 100.5 would also be nulled.
since they stream, (and since there are so many unlimited data plans), i'd suggest hooking that up in the car.
if you were to null out wssl's 100.5 frequency, wnnx's 100.5 would also be nulled.
since they stream, (and since there are so many unlimited data plans), i'd suggest hooking that up in the car.
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