Hello. I've seen many 'boosters' for radio reception, none of which do what
I'm hoping for, so either my aim is foolish beyond imagining, or really
interesting. Please tell me which.

I hope to boost the incoming signal to override the ocal RF mush from nearby
flats, and to do this for a portable receiver so I want no cables attached to
it at all. I have considered two possible ideas:
1. Take a feed from my existing outdoor antenna and make a dipole indoors,
for passive re-radiation of whatever the outdoor one picks up.
2. Same thing, but using a small preamp I built once (uses a MAR6 I think,
about 22dB gain), but instead of feeding the RF input on a tuner as usual,
drive a small dipole to allow any small receiver with a whip or a wire to get
enough of the externally derived signal to beat the indoor mush.

(I think that feedback would be a problem, with any serious power, but
perhaps something as small as the MAR6-based booster I mentioned might work
ok, given that the outdoor antenna is several tens of feet distant. Anyway,
that's the idea, and if it, or something I haven't thought of or mentioned at
all will solve this for me, please tell me. Alternatively, please tell me
what is the impossible obstacle to this notion...)

Crow.