FM aerial for loft ?

[Martyn-123]

Hi,

Have a Cyrus FM7 tuner to compliment the other Cyrus stuff i have and not very happy with the reception as it keeps breaking up despite nearly all the bars lighting up on the tuner.

At present i have a indoor aerial that sits in the living room and think that i need to put a proper indoor aerial in the loft which will be a pain but want to get the quality sounds i am sure the tuner will put out.

I did call into a so called hifi expert shop and they looked at me with a blank expression when i asked about aerial advice and could only suggest plugging in a ipod or similiar to the amp. out of curiosity i got the relevant leads and plugged in my ipad and whilst i could now get all the digital channels the quality was rubbish.

Happy to keep to FM whilst it's still being broadcast so any advice re aerials and fitment gratefully recieved, i assume the TV aerial no longer in use in the loft is not suitable ?


Regards,

Martyn...

[megaphone]

Try the tv aerial, often gets enough signal for FM, I've used this cheat many times. If not an omni directional FM aerial is no more than £15.

[TonyRPH]

Ideally, you want to look at the BBC FM Transmitter locations and then from there try and decide which will be the optimum type of aerial.

If you're quite nearby a powerful transmitter, then a simple 'dipole' will do, but if you are any real distance away, then consider a 3 or 4 element.

A 3 element looks like this: (just a bigger, wider version of a TV aerial)



A single element (dipole) looks like this:

Edited by TonyRPH on Friday 28th December 11:27