"Alan Horowitz" wrote in message
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a city I visit frequently -or more precisely, it's exurban outskirts -
has only one mellow-Jazz FM-broadcast station, the only one for many
hundreds of miles.

thus I have decided to build my own single-station hi-performance
receiver to get the one station.

I know enough to know that ideally, the bulk of the gain,
directionality, selectivity should be at the antenna itself. Or even
more to the point, tower height. At least ideally. And
hi-performance single FM channel yagi's are easily spec'd from a
number of antenna houses. So that issue is not being placed on this
table.

I lived in the Albany, NY area for many years, back when there were not too
many local FM stations there (that is, the 1970's and early 1980's). I used
an audiophile FM tuner board and a roof-mount Yagi FM antenna. Most of the
local stations were southwest of my home. In any other direction but the
southwest, I regularly pulled in stations up to 120 miles away. More distant
stations were hit and miss, depending on tropospheric bending, etc. If your
area is not saturated with local stations, you should have no trouble with a
similar arrangement.