FM antennae recommendations please?


Hi everyone, I had a Terk FM-Pro and it wasn't quite right for my situation. I live in NYC on a low floor with my windows facing other buildings. I need an antennae that is very good with multi path problems. I have the Musical Fidelity A3 tuner, connected by an Harmonic Technology Pro-11 AC power cord plugged into the Monster HTS-3500 power conditioner with H. Tech. Truthlink Silver interconnects. I would appreciate any feedback and recommendations
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Showing 1 response by abecollins

This thread is a bit stale but I thought I would toss in my two cents worth. Since multipath seems to be your main problem I don't think a vertical whip style antenna will do much to fix that problem. I could be wrong but it seems to me that you want a very directional antenna, i.e. a yagi or "beam" style antenna which you can "point" at one signal source while attenuating signals coming from other directions. A beam style antenna is most sensitive from the front, the least sensitive from the sides, and fairly insensitive from the rear. The "front-to-back" ratio is usually expressed in dB. The higher the better. I have a Fanfare vertical whip antenna which is almost identical to the Magnum whip antenna and it does a fine job but its in the open with no buildings nearby except for my house. I don't have much of a multipath issue to worry me here. Hopefully you've found a solution by now. Multipath is a tough thing to deal with.