Howdy: First off let me state that I am a complete idiot when it
comes to antenna's. This will probably become painfully obvious after
reading the rest of my post!

I have a bookshelf stereo system that has a rinky-dink little loop
antenna for AM and a single little wire for FM, both of which run into
a funny little plug that goes into the back of the set. No screws or
ports to attach another antenna.

I live in a mobile home and it has a steel roof built over the top of
it and I get no reception at all inside the house. In my car I can
pick up AM/FM stations from Del Rio (30 miles away) and Uvalde (40
miles away) and even sometimes San Antonio, TX (120 miles away), but
in the house, zilch!

I read somewhere that I could buy a shortwave antenna kit from Radio
Shack and sting up the 100' feet of wire and that would be a good
antenna for the radio. Did that and still no joy! The antenna is run
from a tree to the edge of my steel roof and then along the edges of
the joists. I then have an insulated wire soldered to this and run
down the wall and through a window to the set. The whole thing does
not touch metal anywhere, all stand-offs and insulators are used where
required.

I've attached the stripped end of the lead-in wire to each of the
leads from the back of the set individually and together in
combinations, and still no joy. Just static. I've run the dial through
the entire frequency bands and nothing. I've checked the whole antenna
for anywhere it might come in contact with metal and made sure it was
all insulated. It's about 15 feet off the ground and there are no high
voltage wires, or wires of any kind anywhere around.

So with out berating me too severely around the head and shoulders,
could some one tell me what I've done wrong and how to correct it?

Thanks for any help!


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The Seabat