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"Dan Graves" wrote in message
... I would like to find a receiver that is a great FM receiver. It would be great if it was stereo, too. I have difficulty picking up some classical stations and need something with more receiving power. Thanks for any help, Dan First, consider a better antenna... And for radios the term is 'sensitivity' which is the ability to pickup weak signals and there's also 'selectivity'... the ability to pick one signal over another adjacent signal. Important for FM radios as they tend to 'lock' onto a signal to keep up with possible drift. When looking on the web for say, reviews, look for those two terms. But as for radios: I have one of those Grundig crank/battery/wallwart radios that radio shack sells, which does a fine job. I also have an older Ratshack SW radio (DX-440? think it was made by Sangean originally) that is very very good. Where I'm at there are two 'monster' stations, in separate cities in opposite directions about oh.. 70 miles away each, and they are .2mhz apart (xxx.3, xxx.5) Depending on where I'm at, with most radios I hear one or the other, but they splatter over each other's signals. With the Grundig (got it on sale for $25, think book is $40) I can usually get both. With the DX-440 I can choose either almost anywhere. I can even get the station 1 in station 2's city, though it is weak, with an external antenna. If I wanted a nice sensitive FM radio, I'd look for a good Shortwave radio with FM, because even though it's pretty much an entirely separate section of the radio, most medium to high quality sw radio companies are not going to make themselves look bad by tacking on a $1 FM radio. If you have an existing stereo system with a Cassette of FM radio in it, most of the SW radios with FM can put out stereo on a headphone jack, and you can use one of the various 'in car' cd adapter rigs (I have two, one is a 1/4 watt broadcast FM transmitter, the other is a cassette you pop in your cassette player) to get it into your 'real' stereo. But I'd still look at getting an outdoor antenna first, or even a better indoor one. Not one of those amplified pieces of junk. (usually a little pyramid looking thing). Those are about worthless. Now if I could just figure out how to receive 99.9 on an inside antenna in a cinderblock building with 25 computers all running a 100mhz internal bus. (though I can pick out 101.1 with the DX-440... sweet radio, worth every penny of the $3 I gave for it). |
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