I bought this old-fashioned style radio from LL Bean to listen to a
Prairie Home Companion on.

http://www.llbean.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?page=crosley-radio&categoryId...

It is broadcast locally on PBS radio, but I am in an apartment and am
not getting strong reception. Beyond moving the radio (which I have
tried to several locations) is there anything else I can do to improve
it?

Thanks, Scott

Liten to Douglas the fool on the air:

http://media.putfile.com/dougayactsafooloncb

http://media.putfile.com/dougay-whines-again

http://media.putfile.com/dougay-whines

I have on order a tilting system for my antenna to probe the
polarisation of incoming signals
for maximum audio clarity and gain.
There are instruments out there that can automatically tell you the
polarisation
without one taking the trouble to pan the antenna in different
directions.
Anybody out there follow such a procedure with the antenna or use a
homebrew
or commercial instrument to save time?
Regards
Art

Hi

I am in the process of building a Cobwebb Homebrew and have a question about
it.

On the one I'm building the gap at the ends of the element for each band are
all different. I have also just come across one built by M0MMR that has all
the gaps set at 3 inch's.

Does one antenna work better than the other?

Many thanks

Hi All,

I always hear that antennas have to be matched to their radio, but
in receivers (such as FM and shortwave radios) I see mostly long
random length antennas used, and these antennas -- be they a
telescoping whip or a long wire out a window -- are used over some
really wide bandwidths. How is this possible if an impedance match
must always be maintained for radios? And since there cannot be a
good match over such wide bandwidths with any (typical) wire antenna,
what is the downside to using these completely unmatched long antennas
for receivers? (Poor gain patterns with lots of nulls? Lower
sensitivity due to bad noise figure or gain match for any LNA or
frontend amp? Degraded overall antenna gain)?

Thanks; I'm very confused on this subject!

-Bill